Meet The New Press – Podcast for 05/17/08

            

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Hour 1                                        Hour 2

Pat was out this week – Doug and Skip talk with the guests and each other… 

Clips will be coming soon! 

Hour One:

Opening banter- MTNP Promo, Doug fills in at the WNTK morning show ("what is a blog?"), Blue Hampshire invited on, Doug & Skip discuss the Belknap County Republicans throwing out a Democrat operative (Ben, son of local Dem leader Beth Arsenault).

Interview – Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI) is the Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee (HRPC) and returned for his third go-round with the MTNP gang.  Discussion centered around the the war funding bill (Pelosi wrote it, voted against it – Republicans killed it by voting present),GOP brand diminishment, McCotter’s CD and reinvite to the Congressman and the recently passed farm bill.

Jane Aitken from the CNHT help out!  GPSs.  Teaching.  The value of traditions passed down by teaching.  Dem kicked out of the BCR – the PR foofah & wrap up.  Openness and transparency presentation to the Gilford Select Board.

Hour Two:

International Baccalaureate Part 1- What is it?  What does it stand for?  Why are we concerned?  What is taught that is "other than reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic"? AP vs IB, Philosophy, connection with Obama’s pal Bill Ayers (former Weatherground / SDS radical), and the effects on education training, Mt Helena IB Peace March, Ann Marie talks about Fuzzy Math

Gilford School District Superindentent, Dr. DiMinico: " IB is a philosophy while AP is a series of courses."

Arthur Pontes, IB School Administrator: "Essentially to create a heavily involved body of students who are aware of their own learning styles  who are involved in a global view who understand that they are members of a greater community in which thinking are education are goals in and of themselves".

International Baccalaureate Part 2 – Expectations in the workplace, need for remedial classes for all college entrants, Community Themes for IB schools – social activism.  Schools not just reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic.  The importance of Direct Instruction.  Teachers don’t control test correction.  Connection of IB and UNESCO.  Review of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights vs Constitution, Giving up USA absolute sovereign rights

International Baccalaureate Part 3- More on specific items of the Community Themes – it will be taught.  UN tie ins.  More on Fuzzy Math; social justice ideology embedded into MATH class (radicalmath.org).  Importance of John Dewey in setting the agenda (“no absolutes”).  Importance of engaged teachers and traditional Direct Instruction.  We need local control – HB530

International Baccalaureate Part 4 – Yay for the Internet for study purposes on the IB topic. why does IB sound good? Better IB acceptance at colleges?  Getting A’s – why bad math teaching shows up on a high stakes test – the SAT, over blowing the self esteem mantra taught in schools, Best Practices – an education joke most of the time?

SchlubCam:  None this week