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First Aired - 10/11/2009 01:15PM
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Patrick Martins hosts Megan Saxelby to talk about what it's like to be an educator in the charter school system, and what it takes to help inspire young children from Chicago's south side.
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The Q Report Introduction (5:48)
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Megan Saxelby, childhood education, Chicago, Franny's, www.frannysbrooklyn.com, www.bklarder.com, Megan teaches 10th grade English, South Side of Chicago, literature, reading, Illinois State standards, vocabulary and context, college readiness standards, grammar,The Charter School System (15:12)
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charter system, public schools tend to be more structured, charter schools are able accept private money and donations, they don't use test schools for acceptance, the admission process is like a lottery, magnet schools require testing, walking the line of being a friend and a teacher, entertaining students to inspire them, this charter school is 100% African American, middle class suburbs are way different, neighborhood violence, it becomes hard to come and learn when there are so many other distractions in life, poverty, for the most part the student body is very dedicated, standardized tests, cheating on tests, teachers worried about jobs were cheating to raise performance scores, there are other ways to measure success than test scores, visual and physical learning, artistic talent, translating A Tale of Two Cities into a rap song, circular freedom,Parental Involvement & The State of Education in America (12:12)
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parents need to be supportive for this to work, urban families, there hasn't always been a positive relationship between school and home, to run train means to school somebody, urban vernacular skills, is the national school system in good shape?, attention spans have gotten very short, cell phones, internet, tenure can be a bad thing in some situations, school greenhouse, students have been taught how to make food, Anne Saxelby, Saxelby Cheesemongers, obesity epidemic, diabetes,Brian Kenny Joins Patrick (13:13)
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Brian Kenny, e coli, New York Times, Anatomy of a Burger, making food cheaper, ground beef, some burgers have meat from 6 or 7 different suppliers to lower cost, unsafe products of all kinds are on the shelves, animal welfare, health and welfare, Hearst Ranch, public school lunch, Ann Cooper, Berklee School sustainable kitchen program, Rush Limbaugh, grass fed beef,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
