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Education Today airs every week on Wednesday at 2:30 PM. with discussions of education and urban issues.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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What has Pamela Price accomplished as District Attorney? Civil-rights attorney, Yale Graduate, and Alameda County’s first Black district attoeny, she promised to carry out the reforms that progressives have been asking for, particuarly in relation to youth justice. How is she doing?
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What’s happening with the Oakland and Alameda County recalls? Who is funding them? Who is opposing them and why?
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One of the barriers to great people getting into teaching is the EdTPA, a redundant and expensive test. We will discuss the efforts to get rid of it with our guest.
And we will hear from a representative of Jewish Voices for Peace about the latest actions of the Israeli military and the JVP sit in at Wall Street.
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A new national study indicates that Black girls in school receive much harsher penalties for disciplinary infractions than white girls do, and this occurs in every state in the country. Our guest is the author; local Oakland Deputy Mayor Kimberly Mayfield will also join us to suggest remedies to the problem.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education related news, issues, debates and conversation. Every Wednesday at 2.30 pm
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Today’s episode of Education Today is preempted by the conclusion of a talk with Richard Wolff.
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Today’s episode of Education Today is preempted for a KPFA fall 2024 fund drive special.
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Big news from Oakland. An African-American community-based group has purchased the entire Coliseum with plans for affordable housing and community projects, as well as sports and entertainment. We talk with one of the leaders, Alan Dones, about what this means for the community and especially for young people.
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We will be discussing some interesting new research in education with big implications for parents, teachers, and the public.
And then we will take a few callers. Listen in!!
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We follow up on some stories – organizing against the recalls; diverse teachers trying to obtain the funds set aside for them by a donor; and then we delve into the issue of cell phones in schools.
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Hear Attorney Walter Riley and Servant BK Woodson talk about why they oppose recalls and what they are doing about it.
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There are lots of services in the Bay Area about which few adults and youth are aware.
Learn about them with lifelong Oakland service provider Raymond Lankford today.
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Hear renowned scholar and practitioner Marwan Mohammed on multiple issues
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The New York City Regents exams proved to have such a discriminatory impact, New York officials are finally ready to give up on them.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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The mainstream press runs constant and repetitive stories criticizing Oakland’s Mayor. Hear some folks with a different point of view on today’s show.
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Education Today is hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein. It airs every week at 2:30 PM. Education news.. World news. Urban issues. Controversies and victories
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Education Today is hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein. It airs every week at 2:30 PM. Education news.. World news. Urban issues. Controversies and victories
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Education Today is hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein. It airs every week at 2:30 PM. Education news.. World news. Urban issues. Controversies and victories
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Education Today is hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein. It airs every week at 2:30 PM. Education news.. World news. Urban issues. Controversies and victories
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein that airs every Wednesday at .2:30 PM PST
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein that airs every Wednesday at 2:30 PM PST
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein that airs every Wednesday at 2:30 PM PST.
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Hear staff from Emiliano Zapata Street Academy talk about their travel program and other exciting innovations.
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Educator, scholar, and activist Julia Sass Ruben is shaking up New Jersey politics. She has upended the way the Democratic Party machine usually chooses candidates, and maybe something a little closer to democracy will come to New Jersey! This follows a mass parent initiative she started several years ago..
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Talented new teachers struggle to finance expensive teacher education. The answer exists – provided by a wealthy donor. These teachers.organize to have her wishes honored.
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Hear activist and publisher Paul Cobb on his involvement in historic struggles against racism in schools and community.
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Can academics be activists? Does it mess with their objectivity? Professor Steven Danley mixes academics and activism for himself and his students with some interesting results.
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There is considerable evidence now that state interference in local schools and colleges most heavily impacts Black and Brown students. San Francisco City College is again being affected by the decisions of state regulatory agenicies. Hear about it on today’s show
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Two educators from the Navajo Nation fill us in on the complexity of Navajo education.
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Hear Parent Voices Action leader talk about their effort to stop the State and County from making
decisions for Black and Brown school districts that it does not make for other districts.
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Today’s episode is preempted by special KPFA Winter Fund Drive programming.
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Today’s episode is preempted by special KPFA Winter Fund Drive programming.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein.
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New studies acknowledge that African-American male students have less of an opportunity to go to college than other students. Hear about the causes. Then hear heralded educator Jerome Gourdine discuss how his program changes that equation.
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Today we bring a tribute to beloved Alameda County educator, Earl Crawford. Then up-to-date news and education research followed by calls from our listeners.
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Homeschooling: Why do some parents choose it? How does it differ between countries. One parent’s problematic experience with government regulations.
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Hosts Kitty and Jaron share news and research. Then listeners call in to respond.
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Education Today: Research, news,, guests and listener calls on local and international education issues.
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Hear an Oaklander talk about her fascinating educational journey…..and think with us about what it means for changing schools.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today: Research, news, guests and listener calls on local and international education issues. Every Wednesday at 2:30 PM
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein & Jaron Epstein that airs weekly. This week on education today our guest will be our co host Kitty Kelly Epstein who is currently in China and will be sharing some of the positive things happening there which aren’t highlighted in the mainstream media.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Today we catch up on new developments in the education news and research that we have been following for the last few months.
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Oakland’s Deputy Mayor, Kimberly Mayfield, dialogues with afro-feminist, eco-socialist French legislator, Daniele Obono, about policing, racism, Gaza, and bringing French and American people together for social justice
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Hear both candidates for Oakland School Board District 5, November election. Their views and votes could have enormous implications for Oakland schools.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Hear revered Oakland City Council member and activist Carroll Fife discuss creative solutions to the issues facing cities.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Journalist Alec MacGillis discusses police who basically go “on strike” – while being paid – because they are angry at critique and reform. We discuss the national and local dimension. The post Education Today – September 6, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Hear two psychologists discuss the American Psychological Association’s policy of supporting psychologists who observe, document, and study the torture of prisoners. APA has enormous power and a long history of racist and right-wing policies, including their early selection of eugenics leader, Lewis Terman, as their president. The post Education Today – August 30, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
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African-American Studies – Arkansas declares the Advanced Placement course in the subject will not count toward graduation. Meanwhile, Oakland teacher discusses his own teaching of African-American Studies, the content, the methodology, and the impact. The post Education Today – August 16, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
A conversation about parent organizing and parent-teacher relationships. The post Education Today – August 9, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Two prominent Oaklanders: educator, Denise Jeffrey and musician-educator, Bobby Young, will tell us about going to school in Oakland in the 1960’s, their later adventures, and their current work The post Education Today – August 2, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
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Some say that work on diversity, equity, and inclusion is over in corporations and colleges, because of the Supreme Court decision. Two women who do this work brilliantly will respond. The post Education Today – July 12, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
A discussion of two important issues and an invitation to callers to join us. The post Education Today – July 5, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Hear about an exciting program for high school students who get a bit behind. And hear the needs of new teachers left in the lurch by the closing of Holy Names University. The post Education Today – June 28, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
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Can we fight the Right on critical race theory, tenure, teacher rights and the right to free discussion at school? Hear Dr. Irene Mulvey, President of the American Association of University Professors, on what AAUP is doing nationally and how we can unite in a movement to defeat this enormous new threat. The post Education Today – June 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Visionary organizer; initiator of the first Black Student Union in the country, James (Jimmy) Garrett, is our guest. He discusses questions like: What kind of planning do organizers need to do? What does the current attack on Black Studies mean? Advice for today’s organizers? The post Education Today – June 7, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein that airs every Wednesday at 2:30 PM. Today we hear about an international study on the relationship between bullying and retaining students in the same grade. And we hear a guest from Education Trust on a new Tennessee law that could hold many thousands of third graders back based on their test scores.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein and Jaron Epstein that airs every Wednesday at 2:30 PM
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Hear James Garrett, one of the visionary leaders of the initial movement for Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, and the admission of Black and Brown students to four year colleges, talk with Kitty and Jaron. We’ll discuss the play-fighting between DeSantos and the College Board about African-American studies, and Garrett’s advice for movement activists of the moment
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Jaron is interviewing Kitty, an educator, an activist, and a scholar, about her advice for new and long-term teachers.
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We talk with McGill University Professor Joseph Levitan about his wide-ranging scholarship on such topics as “youth voice;” the education of indigenous women in Peru; and being a citizen of the globe.
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Jaron Epstein and Kitty Kelly Epstein co-host a show interviewing Jeremy Phillips and Ron Armstrong, Jr. about their very popular music therapy program.
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“Rhymes With Reason” founder, Austin Martin, talks with Education Today hosts about Hip-Hop rhymes as a route to super vocabulary for all students.
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Holy Names University announced that it was closing this term and that the Board intended to “sell to the highest bidder.” We hear details on what that means and the opposition to it from two students and a city council member.
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Hear from one of the leaders of an Arab and Muslim group that has been struggling with the San Francisco school district to make Eid a holiday in the schools. Why does it matter? What has happened? Are they winning? What role does Islamophobia play in the opposition?
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Latest education research and news. What is the best study method to learn new information? Why has the College Board changed the content of the African-American studies Advanced Placements course? What is the impact of teacher-student relationship on what students actually learn? And then we talk with callers.
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Some educators are worried about students learning to write, when artificial intelligence chatbots can write sophisticated essays for them. Our guest discusses the positives and negatives of this development, and shares a bit about his experiences as an international teacher in four different countries.
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French teachers are among the millions protesting the government’s devastating “reforms.” Millions in the street just yesterday. Hear a teacher from France and a U.S. teacher discuss what it all means to them.The post Education Today – February 1, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
We interview a USC researcher who found interesting new insights about the impact of participation in music on the sense of well-being for children and adolescents.
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The new Oakland school board voted to rescind the closure of five schools. Hear teachers from two of those schools about what it means to them and the school’s families. The joy, the celebration, the plans, the worries….and the politics.
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Hosts, Kitty and Jaron, interview labor and community leader, the “real” Clarence Thomas. Clarence and other ILWU Local 10 members and retirees penned a letter critiquing U.S. policy in Ukraine, and the absence of pushback from the anti-war movement. In this interview Clarence, explains the letter and provides a bit of fascinating history on this most principled and effective trade union.
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Some years ago high school internships were often a boring stint filing in somebody’s office. But these days Oakland high school students are learning to be sailors and veterinarians and reading teachers. Hear all about it from the organizers and participants.
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Kitty talks with guest, Professor Don Trent Jacobs (Four Arrows), on issues of higher education and activism. Is getting a doctorate as stuffy as it sounds? What are alternative dissertations? How can earning a higher ed degree and changing the world connect?
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Holy Names University, which has one of the most diverse student bodies of any higher education institution in the country, is closing after 154 years. How are faculty and students dealing with this? What is the Oakland community planning for the future educational needs of its young people?
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.
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Hear Oakland attorney and organizer, Walter Riley, discuss what organizing needs to look like as a follow up on Oakland’s somewhat amazing electoral victories in Mayor, D.A., City Council, school board and ballot measure races. The post Education Today – November 30, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
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How does anti-Muslim discrimination affect young people in schools and what can be done about it? And then….How to interpret the much-debated Oakland elections The post Education Today – November 23, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
What effect will the elections have on San Francisco education? Hear from college school board trustee and former President of San Francisco teachers union, Susan Solomon, about the effect on these often-in-the-news K-12 and community college school districts. The post Education Today – November 16, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
The Oakland school board has been a political hot spot for decades, especially after the State took control of the district away from the residents. School closures and their impact on the Black community. State interference. Claim and counter-claim about the state of the budget. Will this month’s election results have any impact on all that? Hear from those directly involved. The post Education Today – November 9, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
What is happening with the famous and revered Mills College? A merger which has been met with protests, a City Council resolution and a law suit. And then a rezoning plan which would allow for denser housing ON the campus. A loss of Mills culture and diversity? Another scary Oakland developer scheme? We’ll hear what two activist alums have to say.. The post Education Today – November 2, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks. The post Education Today – October 28, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
We talk with Professor Alexander Cuenca, who has studied the real reasons behind the teacher shortage and the lack of teacher diversity. The post Education Today – October 14, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks. The post Education Today – September 30, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Corrina Gould, a leader of Ohlone people in the Bay Area, recently led the successful effort to have the City of Oakland return a piece of land to indigenous people. She talks about her own education in Oakland, how she became active in social issues, and her approach to good education for indigenous youngsters. The post Education Today – September 16, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.