Patt Morrison for April 12, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, April 12, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

1:06 – 1:30

OPEN

 

 

1:30 - 1:58:30

The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Amidst heated debates over health care reform, economic recovery and wars in the Middle East, the debate over education reform has gotten somewhat lost. In her new book, “The Death and Life of the Great American School System,” former assistant Secretary of Education under President George H. W. Bush, Diane Ravitch, explains her reversal on President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” policy, which she helped to craft, and her issues with President Obama’s Race to the Top program.  Ravitch offers her prescription for the American educational system based on her more than forty years of experience.

 

Guests:

Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of education at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

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• Ravitch served as Assistant Secretary of Education under Geroge H.W. Bush; she is the author of “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education”

 

 

2:06 – 2:19

OPEN

 

 

2:21 – 2:39

Your golden years might have to wait a little longer: delaying the American retirement

It’s no secret that the slumping economy and the lackluster performance of the stock market over the past few years have forced have forced thousands of older American back into the workforce.  Now the numbers have been quantified:  After more than a century of decline, the number of older American men and women in the workforce began to rise modestly in the 1990’s.  While about 17% of Americans aged 65 to 75 were employed in 1990, the proportion is expected to rise to 25% in 2010.  The economy is an obvious culprit for the trend of delaying retirement, but could it also be possible that older, highly educated and more skilled workers are sticking around longer out of necessity—or because Baby Boomers still enjoy their work?

 

Guest:

Julie Zissimopolous, RAND economist and author of a new study on delayed retirement

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2:41 – 2:58:30

Jules Feiffer’s life:  Backing into Forward

From a “smart –ass kid into an enraged satirist,” Jules Feiffer traces his personal history from the Bronx, where he grew up in the1930s, through his years of drawing the Pulitzer prize-winning comic strip that ran in the Village voice and 100 other publications for 42 years. In his usual self-deprecating humor, he narrates stops along the way for romance, screenwriting, play-writing, and collaboration and general schmoozing with a cast of famous characters. Jules Feiffer brings his signature brand of humor and style to KPCC as he sits down with Patt.

 

Guest:

Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter, and children’s book author

IN STUDIO

 

 

Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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