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Meet The New Press – Podcast for 11/15/08

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Week of 11/15/08
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Hour 1              Hour 2

Meet The New Press – Why education matters edition!

Hour One:

Educationalpalooza with Jane and Anne Marie!

Part 1   Part 2  Part 3   Part 4

Who wishes for fog?  Take heart – not satisfied with the election? Work to change things!  And we need to change Education from the liberal influence (which is not the same as Classic Liberalism) – so Jane and Anne Marie are back. Schools are no longer the same as in the 50s, 60s, and 70s…and conservatives have abdicated the curriculum.  Stories about kids indoctrinated FOR Democrat candidates.  The troops – wanted McCain.  Kids – voting from celebrityhood and Chanel marketing. Why are politicos jealous of Sarah Palin? 

We are seeing the results, in this election, of values installed by the government schools.  Discussion of Bill Ayers and his ilk on the teacher population, the co-opting of the language. Where is the clear thinking? It is free market and individual freedoms, not socialism, that has increased standards of living.  New Beginnings – indoctrinating out kids locally?  Is our real history being lost? On TV, why are Dads always denigrated and made fun of?  The Gag Rule (aka "The Fairness Doctrine")? Sen. Schumer (D-NY) – conservative radio talk = pornography?  Real hate speech – Prop 8 supporters? "None Dare Call it Education" – 12 fundamental beliefs being discarded.

Reasons why pulling kids out of government schools. The case for school vouchers – high testing countries use it, so why not us?  Who are the teachers union leaders really for?  Leo Sandy – another Bill Ayers?  Why is the NEA supporting CA Prop 8 – gay marriage – what does that have to do with education and is it emblematic of the problem?

Who to change the schools?  EduBabble?  The Showcase? what is HOT? Lots of experimentation Instead of being taught, the kids have to figure it out themselves – group learning instead of teacher direction. Absolute vs relative morality (isn’t the latter working out just so well?)  Again – who really controls the local schools – you, the School Board, NH, or the Feds? Peeking under the blanket – kids using technology to record their teacher’s ideological rants – why do we never see CONSERVATIVE rants?  webcams for parents?  Teachers – they want parents involved to get the nonsense out of the schools.

Hour Two: 

We talked with Duane Lester of the AllAmericanBlogger about corporate socialism with a bailout of the the Big Three automakers. "The church of Global Warming" on the left – killing off the internal combustion engine (why not give money to the electric car companies like Tesla?)  It all comes down to the UAW (whose average job cost is twice that of the average manufacturing company union employee).  Environmental zealotry.   Work rules – job bank. Example: England’s failed attempt at saving British Leyland.  Contrasting costs (union, non-union) broken down by car.  Bankruptcy is better for the Big 3? Where does it stop? Reward bad behavior? Global warming – Maurice Strong – wealth redistribution by any means. Kyoto – fines are being paid by countries whose CO2 standards are so low that they cannot be met and sent to countries whose CO2 limits are so high they cannot meet them – simple wealth distribution.  Will Republicans vote with Pelosi and Reid to bailout the Big Three, and now the Governator, Detroit City, et al, with their hands out?  Are we doing away with risk?  What will Obama do now that the Feds outright own companies?  Devaluing the dollar?  Will free markets / capitalism be destroyed because of government distortions and creeping socialism?                Part 1   Part 2   Part 3

Back to Jane and Anne Marie – Is local control over education a sham?  State programs: Follow the Child, No Child Left Behind.  Fed programs: led by UN programs as the UN has strayed from its original mission of peace between countries to lots of programs for a one world government.  Huh? – UN and Marvel Comics for "social Justice" comics for your kids’ schools?  New Beginnings in the Gilford’s school system? NH sophomores to be able to test out with lower quality tests than seniors?  The problem – whose definition of "well rounded, well prepared" will win out?  Where is the curr
iculum behind this?  Didn’t NH just pass a law preventing early dropouts? Effects on the achievement gap?  Government dependence (Katrina) vs self-reliance with a bit of government help (Flooding in the Mid-West).

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Segment 1  Segment 2  Segment 3  Segment 4 Segment 8

Break 1  Break 2  Break 3  10 AM Top of the Hour News break

Break 6  After the Show

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