      
|
| PART 1
(15:00) |
| Experimenting
with Choice |
| In 1990,
the New Zealand parliament introduced vouchers on a nation-wide
level with the hope of improving blighted urban schools. Former
New York Times Editor Ted Fiske
and Public Policy expert Helen Ladd
tell us what America has to learn from New Zealand's experiment
with school choice. |
| -Recorded
August 23, 2000 |
| PART 2
(19:30) |
| Harold
Levy: An Outsider Takes Control of New York Public Schools |
| Harold
Levy gave up his job as a successful corporate lawyer to become
the chancellor of the biggest school system in the country. Is
this man crazy? Levy talks with John Merrow about what his corporate
sensibility and no-nonsense approach are up against. |
| -Recorded
October 3, 2000 |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
ARTICLES
"Levy Is Sparring With an Old Ally Over Direction
of the City Schools," Abby Goodenough, The New York Times,
August 10, 2000.
"Levy Offers Higher Salaries to Staff the Worst Schools," Abby
Goodnough, The New York Times, August 2, 2000.
"Harold Oscar Levy, Executive With a Passion for Ideas," Anemona
Hartocollis, The
New York Times, January 19, 2000.
WEB SITE
New
York City Board of Education |
 |
|
 |
|
| PART 3
(15:30) |
| "Choosing
Excellence" with Diane Ravitch |
 Host
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 4: Interview with Diane
Ravitch, Professor of Education at New York University and
author of Left Back: A Century of Failed Schooled Reform.
RELATED RADIO PROGRAMS:
Segment 1: Interview with Alfie Kohn
Segment 2: Interview with E.
D. Hirsch
Segment 3: Interview with Lisa Delpit |
| -Recorded
August 15, 2000 |
|
