High School Series Encore
Thursday, August 03 2006
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Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006
What's Wrong With Boys?: As girls continue to outperform boys in public schools, single-sex education is gaining traction as the next big reform movement. Host Frank Stasio welcomes co-host Corey Webster, a senior at Durham's Riverside High School. Together, they speak to: Rosemary Salomone, St. John's University law professor and author of, "Same, Different, Equal: Rethinking Single-Sex Education" (Yale University Press/2003) about the so-called boy crisis in education. Russell Harper, principal of North Carolina A&T Middle College, and Elizabeth Hudgins, senior director of policy and research at Action for Children North Carolina, weigh in on what's being done in North Carolina to help disadvantaged boys succeed in school. This program originally aired on May 19, 2006.
Friday, Aug. 4, 2006
Why teach?: Teachers are often caught between increasing pressure from administrators to improve academic performance and low pay. So why would someone teach? And what is the future of the teaching profession? As part of the series "North Carolina Voices: Studying High School" we present a live forum on teaching. Host Frank Stasio is joined by: Eddie Davis, English teacher at Hillside High School in Durham and the current president of the North Carolina Association of Educators; Melinda Chambless, a Teach for America teacher, who is about to complete her first year teaching biology at Warren County High School in Warrenton; April Tisdale, a 10-year veteran social studies teacher who has been at Enloe Magnet High School in Raleigh for the past seven years; and Kenneth Dobyns, a teacher in the Freshmen Academy at West Johnston High School in Benson.This program originally aired on May 22, 2006.
