Teaching Texas

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In 1961, Norma and Mel Gabler were a quiet couple living in Hawkins, Texas. One day, they noticed some factual errors in their son's school book. What began as a small complaint morphed into a multi-decade crusade to shape what children of Texas — and therefore the country — read in their textbooks. In an election year with raging debates around education, this audio documentary charts how Texas dictated American education over the last sixty years and examines how the fight over our childre...

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Introducing: Winning Wisconsin

Sep 28th, 2020 7:00 AM

Winning Wisconsin is a Wonder Media Network production. It is created by Grace Lynch and produced by Grace Lynch and Maddy Foley. Jenny Kaplan is the Executive Producer. WMN on Twitter: @wmnmedia Grace Lynch on Twitter: @gracelynch08 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Winning Wisconsin: The Tipping-Point

Sep 29th, 2020 10:00 AM

Winning Wisconsin is a Wonder Media Network production. It's created by Grace Lynch, and produced by Grace Lynch and Maddy Foley. Jenny Kaplan is the Executive Producer. Background reading: FiveThirtyEight's tipping-point analysis. WMN on twitterGrace Lynch on twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Winning Wisconsin: Divide and Conquer

Oct 6th, 2020 10:00 AM

How Governor Scott Walker's attack on labor transformed Wisconsin into ground zero for divisive politics. Read The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics by Dan KaufmanRead How The Right Lost Its Mind by Charles Sykes Winning Wisconsin is a Wonder Media Network production. It's created by Grace Lynch, and produced by Grace Lynch and Maddy Foley. Jenny Kaplan is the Executive Producer. WMN on twitterGrace Lynch on twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Winning Wisconsin: America's Dairyland

Oct 13th, 2020 10:00 AM

Four years after overwhelmingly supporting President Trump, Wisconsin's dairy farmers are struggling to stay afloat. Read Dan Kaufman's article in The New Yorker, "How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump's Fate" Winning Wisconsin is a Wonder Media Network production. It's created by Grace Lynch, and produced by Grace Lynch and Maddy Foley. Jenny Kaplan is the Executive Producer. WMN on twitterGrace Lynch on twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Winning Wisconsin: Milwaukee's Fight

Oct 20th, 2020 10:00 AM

The city blamed for Hillary's defeat is home to some of the starkest racial disparities in the country. Four years later, the citizens of Milwaukee are in a fight for the vote, for their health, and for racial justice. Read Joseph O'Neill's article in The New Yorker, "How Milwaukee Could Decide The Next President"Learn more about BLOC and their work in MilwaukeeWinning Wisconsin is a Wonder Media Network production. It's created by Grace Lynch, and produced by Grace Lynch and Maddy Foley. Jenny Kaplan is the Executive Producer. WMN on twitterGrace Lynch on twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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