by Steve on 2, February, 2010
We had the great honor on October 25th of last year to interview Peter Wright from Wrightslaw.
Pete is a pioneer in the area of Special Education Law and truly one of the ultimate child advocates in this country. We had the joy of being able to host a Wrightslaw conference in 2008 and were stunned [...]
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by Steve on 6, January, 2010
You Missed A Show?
Missed a show? How could you?
Okay, besides you have a family and the show is on early Sunday mornings.
Then here’s your chance to catch up. I’ll be posting full breakouts of all the shows we did in 2009 but in the meantime check out any of the shows that you might have [...]
by Steve on 15, November, 2009
On Nov. 8th we had the honor of speaking with educational expert, John Taylor Gatto, about the current state of the American educational system.
Some startling (and scary) educational statistics to consider……
1 in 5 American Children Drops Out Of High School
Some schools the graduation rate is only 50% ….. or worse. Some a whole lot worse (Detroit [...]
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by Steve on 23, October, 2009
“Parents will always be catalysts for education reform.”
def: Catalyst: An agent that precipitates -or- accelerates fundamental change
In what is sure to be a phenomenally informative show, this Sunday on the “My Great Kid” Radio Program (Sunday 8:00am-9:00am, WAAM 1600am or online at www.waamannarbor.com; A podcast will be posted after the show) we will be interviewing Peter [...]
by Steve on 26, November, 2008
Read this story about the recent report from the Education Trust, a children’s advocacy group, and you realize that our biggest challenges right now have less to do with the state of Wall Street and more with the state of our classrooms.
It does reinforce all the more though the need to find out how qualified [...]