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PROGRAM 4-6
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PART 1 (15:00)
 The Sex Lives of Your Children
Pulitzer prize winning journalist Lucinda Franks reveals some disturbing truths about the sex lives of teens and explains how American schools are exacerbating an already critical problem.
-Recorded September 26, 2000
ARTICLES
"The Face of Teenage Sex Grows Younger," Anne Jarrell, The New York Times, April 2, 2000.
"The Sex Lives of Your Children," Lucinda Franks, Talk , February, 2000.
"Beyond AIDS: Teenagers and STDs," Laura Sessions Stepp, The Washington Post, March 23, 1999.
"Teen-Agers and Sex: Younger and More at Risk," Jane E. Brody, The New York Times, September 15, 1998.
"Little Big People," Lucinda Franks, New York Times, October 10, 1993.

PART 2 (19:30)
 Jonathan Kozol: Children in the Years of Hope
Jonathan Kozol woke America up to the stark inequalities in public schools with his book, Savage Inequalities. Kozol talks to John Merrow about Ordinary Resurrections, a hopeful new book about children living in the South Bronx.
-Recorded September 13, 2000
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PART 3 (15:30)
 "Choosing Excellence" with Lisa Delpit
click here to find out more about this bookHost and veteran education reporter John Merrow believes there are three kinds of schools: bad ones, 'good enough' ones and excellent ones. Good-enough schools represent the status quo– and they stand in the way of excellence. In a four part series, John Merrow talks to some of the most well-respected educators in the county about what constitutes an excellent school.
Segment 3: Interview with Lisa Delpit, author of Other People's Children.
-RecordedApril 15, 2000
RELATED RADIO PROGRAMS:
Segment 1: Interview with Alfie Kohn
Segment 2: Interview with E. D. Hirsch
Segment 4: Interview with Diane Ravitch
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