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1 (15:00) |
| Murray
Sperber : Are College Sports Destroying Undergraduate Education? |
| In the
waning years of the Roman empire, a Roman satirist wrote that
'bread and circus' were the only two things that seemed to
interest his countrymen. Author Murray
Sperber argues that "Beer and Circus"– or partying
and spectator sports– are the only two things that interest
the majority of university students today– that in fact
these two activities occupy the entire academic careers of
vast numbers of undergraduates. |
| -Recorded
October 19, 2000 |
| PART
2 (19:30) |
| Arts
Education and Academic Achievement |
Music
at KIPP Academy: At KIPP Academy, a high performing public
middle school in the South Bronx of New York City, music education
has a vital role in the curriculum. Every student in the school
must learn to play an instrument. This feature segment looks
at why KIPP's leaders think arts education is critical to
the educational experience, and how playing an instrument
has made a difference in students' lives.
(Related articles and web
sites)
Re-Examining the Mozart Effect: with Lois
Hetland and Ellen Winner The
claim that exposure to the arts, particularly classical music,
makes kids smarter is so widely accepted that at least two
states, Georgia and Michigan, distribute classical CDs to
all families with newborns. A new study looks at the relationship
between the arts and academic performance and suggests that
we may be asking the wrong questions.
RELATED PROGRAM: KIPP
Academy: Doing Something Right |
| -Recorded
November 1, 2000 |
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ARTICLES
"The Arts and Academic Achievement: What
the Evidence Shows," The Journal of Aesthetic Education,
University of Illinois Press, Vol. 34, nos. 3/4, Fall/Winter
2000. "Tuning Up the Brain," Newsweek,
October, 2000.
"The Mozart Effect? Sublime Music," Pamela Ferdinand, The
Washington Post, Sept. 21, 2000.
"Mozart and SATs Ellen Winner and Lois Hetland, The
New York Times, March 4, 1999.
WEB SITES
Ellen
Winner's web site
Harvard
Project Zero
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| PART
3 (15:30) |
| Richard
Rothstein: The Way We Weren't |
| Are
public schools in decline? That is, are they worse today than
they were a generation ago? Americans like to believe in a
golden age of education, when schools were better and graduates
were more capable. But is this more myth than reality? Guest
Richard Rothstein argues that
there was no "golden age" of education: that in fact Americans
are better educated today than they ever have been in the
past. |
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| -Recorded
November 1, 2000 |
ARTICLES
"Education and the Economy," Richard Rothstein,
The New York
Times, May 10, 2000.
"Author Challenges 'Myth' That Education System is Failing,"
Julie Blair, Education
Week, September 30, 1998.
WEB SITES
Richard
Rothstein's Occidental College home page
Articles
and Research Reports by Richard Rothstein
Economic
Policy Institute |
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