University of Texas System Chancellor J.B. Milliken and Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp join us to talk about issues facing higher education.
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Anything You Ever Wanted To Know About Death
Mortician Caitlin Doughty joins us to tackle the interesting and icky questions posed by children about a still-taboo subject.
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What Does The SAT Really Measure?
Journalist Paul Tough joins us to talk about the hurdles low-income students face to attend college.
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Guiding Jazz’s Next Generation
Bart Marantz has dedicated his career to teaching jazz, and he joins guest host John McCaa to talk about the next generation of jazz greats.
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Why Kids Draw – And Why They Stop
Arts educator Marilyn JS Goodman joins us to talk about how drawing evolves as kids develop mentally and physically, which she writes about in “Children Draw: A Guide to Why, When and How Children Make Art.”
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How Texas Schools Are Re-segregating
Reporters Alexa Ura and Aliyya Swaby join us to discuss the forces at play that are effectively re-segregating schools, which they write about in the Texas Tribune series “Dis-Integration.”
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Go Ahead, Major In Philosophy. You’ll Still Get A Job
George Anders joins us to talk about why seeking a broad education could be more dynamic in the long run.
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Broken Promises: Education And Native Americans
Rebecca Clarren joins us to talk about how cultural insensitivity, declining federal funding and other factors have led to an educational crisis among American Indians.
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Inherit The Wind
We’ll talk about the Dallas Theater Center’s production of “Inherit the Wind” with director Kevin Moriarty.
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The Changing Face Of Schools
As part of KERA’s American Graduate series, we’re partnering with the public radio show Houston Matters for a discussion of how students’ racial backgrounds affect the quality of their schooling.
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How To Pay For College
This hour, we’ll talk about strategies for paying for college and about how much debt is reasonable to take on with Ron Elsenbaumer, interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at UT-Arlington; and Cynthia Butler, executive director of financial aid for Dallas County Community College District.
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Teach The Children Well
This hour, as part of KERA’s American Graduate series, we’ll talk about how at least trying to see the world through children’s eyes can inform the way we teach them with Erika Christakis. Her new book is called “The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups.”
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