Today’s episode is a rebroadcast from April 24, 2018. Guest host Denise DeMarb spends the hour dedicated to the topic of childcare with guests Jen Bailey, executive director of Reach Dane, an early childhood services agency; Coral Manning, Early Childhood Care and Education manager for the City of Madison; and Jodi Bartnick, executive director of […]
Rebroadcast: Teacher Strikes, Labor Unions, and Academic Freedom
Today’s episode is a rebroadcast from September 10, 2018. Throughout 2018, the United States saw statewide teacher strikes in Oklahoma and Arizona. And in recent news, members of the Los Angeles teachers’ union ended their six-day strike with a successful settlement. To understand the context of these events, we are replaying Patty’s conversation with professor […]
Anti-Semitism, Education, and Allyship
For today’s episode, Wednesday host Ali Muldrow is joined in the studio by Jeff Spitzer-Resnick to discuss the Baraboo Nazi salute incident and what should be done about anti-Semitism in schools and the public square. With the input of many listener-callers, they also explore what it means to be an ally to the Jewish community and […]
The Fight for Public Education in America
Today’s episode is all about the American K–12 school system in Wisconsin and beyond. Educator and activist Bob Peterson joins us to discuss a host of issues related to public education, including austerity measures that have stripped funding from public schools, the proliferation of testing and its effects on learning, effects of privatization, the importance […]
The Environment and Nuclear War: Making the Link – What Madison R...
The event is a lecture featuring Dr. Bob Dodge who will be discussing what steps Madison can take to achieve nuclear disarmament and about the Back from the Brink campaign. Dr. Bob Dodge is the Co-Chair of the Security Committee of Physicians for Social Responsibility – USA and President of Physicians for Social Responsibility – […]
Looking at the Student Loan Debt Crisis
In the United States right now, student loan debt is second only to home mortgage debt. How did we get here? With another school year starting off, we thought we’d take a close look at just how much university education costs in America—and what that price tag is doing to student borrowers, the economy, and […]
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