Meet The New Press – Podcast for 03/22/08

            

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Hour 1                                        Hour 2

Pat was out this week – Doug and Skip talk with our guests and each other! 

Hour One

          Supreme Court – oral argument this week in front of the Justices; update on           the Doug and Tom’s Right To Know suit against the Belknap County      
          Convention. 

          Discussion – Skip, Doug, Tom – Bill McLean thinks Skip & Doug are weaseling
          out of doing RTK requests concerning Evans Juris’s firing.

          Tom – Laconia City Budget – what’s the process and has it been followed?

          Interview – Grant Bosse – running for NH Congressional District 2 
          Representative
 

Hour Two

Dr. Paul DiMinico, Superindent of Gilford SAU and Ken Wiswell, Principal of Gilford High School join Skip and Doug and talk about No Child Left Behind ("NCLB") – the public is not happy with education, who should be setting the standards, successful teaching methodology, NECAP, US students vs international students, discipline in the schools (and parents who fight it), emphasis on the basics insted of "isms", basic fact knowledgebase vs critical thinking (chicken and egg) and lots more.

          Note: I’ll be honest – we moved too fast and returned to topics and left them
            so often it would be difficult to snip out certain topics…..just listen to the
            whole thing! 

          Note – lots more on the SchlubCam, especially the discussion that happened
            after the show ended its "over the air" broadcast.
 

SchlubCam:  

                 Time with Tom – Supreme Court oral updates, spelling on road signs, Evans Juris firing
                    and resulting brouhaha, Boucher and Admin Procedure (does it HAVE to be written?),
                    Laconia Budget
 

                 NCLB – Skip and Doug talk with Dr. Paul DiMinico and Ken Wiswell (Gilford SAU
                    Superintendent and High School Principal) about LOTS to do with and around NCLB -
                    why, what’s going on, and what to do next.  "Break talk" included.