Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer.  This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.  He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years.  And yet, Schultz has dyslexia.  In his recent memoir, My Dyslexia, Schultz recounts his childhood struggles trying [...]

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Hour 1 In Philadelphia, over half of all students drop out from high school.  In the U.S., only seven of 10 ninth graders will get high school diplomas. Locally, Mayor Michael Nutter has made raising the number of high school graduates a priority, setting goals to halve the dropout rate.  On the national level, in [...]

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Hour 2 Mayor Nutter recently turned a few heads after he used some choice words when responding to the senseless murder of three Philadelphia teenagers.  The award-winning ABC sitcom Modern Family also found itself in a little bit of hot water thanks to an F-bomb dropped by a toddler.  Meanwhile the Supreme Court has begun [...]

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Hour 1 Laptops, tablets, electronic white boards and PowerPoint are increasingly at home in K through 12 classrooms. Some education reformers see technology as the central to improving learning, personalizing education, and saving money for cash-strapped schools. But so far studies have shown that digital learning hasn’t made the grade. This hour, we’ll look at [...]

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Hour 2 Our names tell people a lot about us—perhaps our gender, our marital status, our race or religion or country of origin and sometimes the name we are given no longer fits or we just don't like it anymore.  Does your name make you feel uncomfortable and if so, have you ever been tempted [...]

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Hour 1 You’re playing in a public park with your kids, riding on public transit or shopping in a supermarket and witness a parent cursing at and/or pushing their child. What is the right thing to do? Is it the business of a stranger to intervene? Our guest, Philadelphia magazine reporter VICTOR FIORILLO, has had [...]

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Hour 2 A number of hazing-related deaths have made headlines in recent months. Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died within an hour of a hazing ritual, according to the state medical examiner, that involved “multiple blunt trauma blows to the body.” And eight soldiers in Afghanistan have been charged with involvement in the [...]

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Hour 1 What kind of music should parents be playing for their kids? Should parents dive into the growing world of music aimed at children, or should they just play their favorite “adult” music and hope the kids grow to love it? This hour, we’re talking about kids’ music that parents won’t hate, from the [...]

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Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer.  This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.  He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years.  And yet, Schultz has dyslexia.  In his recent memoir, My Dyslexia, Schultz recounts his childhood struggles trying [...]

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Hour 2 Many families are gathering for the holidays this year, but if it’s Christmas being celebrated, is the feast day December 25th or January 6th – or January 19th, when Ethiopians celebrate the Epiphany? Elsewhere a table may feature a family recipe for a sweet kugel dish next to a pungent, Korean kimchi. Temple [...]

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