As schools open around the country, here’s my 2013 converation with RAFE ESQUITH, who for 30 years taught 5th grade at LA’s Hobart Elementary public school. In 2005, PBS aired the documentary, THE HOBART SHAKESPEARIANS, about the full folio Shakespeare productions that his students perform each year. “I don't want my students to be ordinary; I want them to be extraordinary because I know that they are. If a 10-year-old, who doesn't speak English at home, can step in front of you and do a scene from Shakespeare,” says Esquith, "then there is nothing that he cannot accomplish.” We talk about REAL TALK FOR REAL TEACHERS: Advice for Teachers, From Rookies to Veterans: No Retreat, No Surrender! You can learn more at hobartshakespeareans.org
Episode 490: THOMAS HOMER-DIXON - for the new year - COMMANDING HOPE: The Power to Renew a World in Peril
Episode 489: NEW-Sisters Constance Touey & Jeannette Lucey - DO IT BETTER: How the Kids of St. Francis de Sales Exceeded Everyone’s Expectations
Episode 488: SAM MYERS, PLANETARY HEALTH: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves - Exhibit A: the pandemic
Episode 487: REBECCA HENDERSON, REIMAGINING CAPITALISM In a World on Fire
ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Trump’s legal options, How Biden reverses Trump’s orders, and the Supreme Court
MILTON BENNETT-The Cult of Trump -72M Americans voted for four more years
ROB JOHNSON-Relief - but no congratulations. Dems must be bolder.
CHICAGO CONSPIRACY TRIAL - JON WIENER -What does it have to tell us?
BILLY WIMSATT, Movement Voter Project (2018) - Invest in the grassroots to win elections and make change.
ALEX KEYSSAR-Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
JON WIENER, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Rec. JAN 28, 2017-MARK HERTSGAARD, RICHARD ESKOW, DREW DELLINGER-the Week Trump Took Office
ROBERT FRANK, best-selling economist - UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST - We know innovative programs that work - whether kids are in school or not
ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Racial Justice and the Trump-Barr Assault on Rule of Law
PAUL HOWARD, director, INFINITE POTENTIAL: Life & Ideas of DAVID BOHM
JEAN GUERRERO, author, HATEMONGER: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
CHUCK COLLINS-Inequality is only getting worse during pandemic
JODIE EVANS (2017) co-founder CodePink, where activism never stops
GREG PALAST-You’ve been warned-HOW TRUMP STOLE 2020 ELECTION
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