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Monday, December 31, 2007 Insight Presents - Watch Night Watch Night is a vigil kept on the last night of the year in services that are thoughtful, solemn, soulful, joyous and celebratory. Congregants sing hymns, share testimonies and give thanks, offer up problems and mistakes of the old year and anticipate the blessings of the New Year. Watch Night showcases this observance and highlights its unique, historic meaning for African American churches, illuminating and personalizing the significance of the service using interviews, music, poetry and song. Because the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect at midnight on New Year's Eve 1863, black Christians have invested the Watch Night tradition and its rituals with new depths of meaning, often calling it Freedom's Eve.
The official phrase is at-risk families. In simplest terms, that often means people who don’t have enough money to get by.
And if a family is dealing with significant health challenges, not having enough money can be life-threatening.
On this edition, guest host Katherine Brooks examines one local effort to make sure at-risk families have a much better chance of getting the health care they need.
This program was originally broadcast on June 20, 2007.
Guest Host:
Katherine Brooks - Co-Chair of Charlottesville-based Women United in Philanthropy, Co-Founder of The Inheritance Project and Co-Editor of The Legacy of Inherited Wealth.
Guest:
Judy Smith - Coordinator of The Jefferson Area Office of the Comprehensive Health Investment Project (CHIP).
The presidential candidates are spending a lot of time and money in Iowa and New Hampshire these days, but historically elections have been decided by voters in Ohio.
In this episode, John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji head to Cleveland to pose the question: What if the Ohio primary came first?
They also talk to people around the country about how they would change the election process.
What if you could teach a child how to decipher the meanings of words without using a dictionary?
We delve into the patterns of meaning found in words, and explore the field of Morphology.
This program was originally broadcast on October 22, 2007.
Guest Host:
Katherine Brooks - Co-Chair of Charlottesville-based Women United in Philanthropy, Co-Founder of The Inheritance Project and Co-Editor of The Legacy of Inherited Wealth.
Guests:
Thomas Estes, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia and from 1970 to 2001, he served as professor of Reading Education in the Curry School of Education. Dr. Estes is currently President of Dynamic Literacy, a company based in Charlottesville that is committed to improving vocabulary, language, and reading comprehension for students through the WordBuild Vocabulary Development System™.
Rollin David Larrick, Ph.D. - Retired teacher, with 35 years of teaching experience, the last 25 years as Latin and Greek teacher at Albemarle High School. Dr. Larrick is currently a Language Specialist for Dynamic Literacy.
Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of this holiday classic, using a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations.
He re-creates Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley's spirit and the three Christmas ghosts: Past, Present and Future. Mimi Kennedy also performs.
20 years ago, when Kristin met Joe, she asked what he did for a living.
He named a job she’d never hear of, but she married him anyway.
Now she’s written a book about the work Joe, and hundreds like him, are doing that most people still don’t know about.
We talk with this Charlottesville couple about their new book and the Organizers work they say is changing the world one community at a time.
This program was originally broadcast on July 18, 2007.
Guests:
Kristin Layng Szakos - Freelance Journalist and lead author of the new book We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do - and Why.
Joe Szakos - Executive Director of The Virginia Organizing Project and co-author of We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do - and Why.
This year, A Season's Griot celebrates the National Association of Black Storytellers, Incorporated, on their silver anniversary.
Stories in this year's program include Linda Goss telling The Frog Who Wanted to Sing, about following one's dreams in the face of frustration, and Mother Mary's Cindy Ella, a certain fairytale re-imaged in 1980s Baltimore.
Kids seem to always be asking questions that aren’t that easy to answer.
What is love? Why do people fight? Why do you have to go to work every day?
Instead of giving a simple answer, what would happen if you introduced them to some big ideas, like those of Plato and Socrates?
We talk about some innovative ways to engage a child’s natural curiosity and help brace them for the grey areas of life.
This program was originally broadcast on August 8, 2007.
Guests:
Marietta McCarty - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville and author of Little Big Minds.
Anne Carter - Former middle school teacher and current teacher of the Discovering and Developing the Philosopher Within course in the Curry School of Education's Summer Enrichment Program.
This year, tune in for a new radio tradition.
We're presenting stories from the NPR archives that touch on the meaning of Christmas.
David Sedaris, Bailey White, John Henry Faulk... these and other NPR voices, past and present, tell stories of the season.
In Winchester a human cartoon is among the performers traveling in from around the country.
In Charlottesville the focus is homegrown talent.
And in Harrisonburg, Glick and Phillips are planning to return to the stage, along with a host of newcomers.
It's time once again for Virginia to get ready for First Night and we're doing our part to spread the word on what you can enjoy.
Also get an idea of the behind the scenes work that goes into First Night, on the next Virginia Insight.
Guests:
Bob Mosolgo - President of the Charlottesville based first night celebration First Night Virginia.
Elizabeth Haworth - Executive Director of First Night Harrisonburg.
Sally Coates - Chairman of First Night Winchester.
What does it take to create happiness?
Therapist Christy Barongan says the more she read about the findings in the field of positive psychology, the more fascinated she became.
Now she’s offering a course called Happiness 101 to faculty and staff at Washington and Lee University.
She started the course, and agreed to be our guest, in the hopes that new research findings about creating happiness reach as wide an audience as possible.
This program was originally broadcast on June 4, 2007.
Guest:
Christy Barongan, Ph.D. - Counseling Psychologist at the Washington and Lee University Counseling Center and Co-author of the college textbook Multi-Cultural Psychology.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990s, there was a chance for cooperation where there had once been conflict.
And for a while it seemed friendship might replace the bitter legacy of the Cold War.
But 18 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, relations between Washington and Moscow are once again icy.
On this documentary from America Abroad, we'll take a look at how President Putin has retained his popularity despite cracking down on political freedom in Russia; hear an archival audio tour of the history of US-Russian relations since the fall of the Soviet Union; look back at the Clinton administration’s efforts to expand NATO while maintaining friendly relations with Russia; and explore Russia's position on the independence of Kosovo and what it says about Russia’s foreign policy.
True or False - Some problems just have no solution?
A Virginia man who's made a career out problem solving would answer, "False."
For more than 20 years, Chic Thompson has been teaching businesses and governments unique
problem-solving techniques, as well as how to foster creativity.
We talk with Chic Thompson, author of What a Great Idea, a 1990 best selling book which has been re-issued in a new edition.
This program was originally broadcast on September 5, 2007.
Guest:
'Chic' Thompson - Founder of Charlottesville based Creative Management Group and creator of the website WhatAGreatIdea.Com. Author of What a Great Idea and What A Great Idea - 2.0.
High jinks and fun, including some great jokes for the holiday season.
Featuring veteran comedian Shelley Berman, funny mom Cathy Ladman and the witty and multifaceted
musician/performer, Peter Himmelman.
And to cap things off, the program includes a visit to San Francisco's Kung Pao Kosher comedy show, "A Muslim, a Mormon and a Jew Walk Into
a Bar."
John Whitehead’s controversial Rutherford Institute funded Paula Jones’ battle against President Bill Clinton, defended a Muslim youngster’s right to wear religious garb in a public school, adamantly opposes abortion, and is now pushing for a moratorium on the death penalty.
Behind it all, says Whitehead, is his understanding of the "Good Samaritan" story and a religious philosophy that requires him to help the underdog.
We talk with one of Virginia’s most outspoken attorneys about his concept of Christianity and civil rights.
Guest:
John Whitehead - President, The Rutherford Institute.
They were called The Ghost Mountain Boys; in part because their World War II engagement included climbing Ghost Mountain; and in part because those who survived the climb, and the following battle, looked a lot like ghosts.
We talk with the author of a new book about perhaps the most horrendous and least reported battle American soldiers faced in the south Pacific.
And in the telling of this gripping story, there are lessons to be learned that can be applied today.
This program was originally broadcast on October 5, 2007.
Guest:
James Campbell - Author of the recently released book, The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea - The Forgotten War of the South Pacific. Mr. Campbell is also the author of The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness.
A perennial NPR favorite, now well into its second decade.
Acclaimed authors explore Chanukah traditions in original stories written expressly for Chanukah Lights.
Hosted by Murray Horwitz and Susan Stamberg.
Since 1989, over 200 innocent people have been freed from prison because of DNA testing.
This has shaken the criminal justice system and left advocates asking how many more innocent people are still in US prisons.
We’ll explore how it was possible for these men to have been wrongfully incarcerated and learn of a brand new study by a University of Virginia Attorney who looked at all 200 cases to see why these people were unable to get the courts to believe they were being wrongfully accused.
We’ll also look at what has been happening in Virginia to change the laws so that this kind of thing doesn't happen again.
We explore what it takes to get DNA testing for those in prison who claim to be innocent.
This program was originally broadcast on July 20, 2007.
Guests:
Shawn Armbrust - Director of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.
Brandon Garrett - Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia and author of a brand new report called Judging Innocence.
Is the brain identical to the mind? And what do the genetics behind memory and learning tell us about the relationship between the two?
Neuroscientists and philosophers alike are grappling with the interplay between the inner mind and the outer world, looking at how the brain we are born with changes in response to the cultural, social, personal and physical environments in which we live.
In this episode of The DNA Files, we turn to sea slugs, amnesiacs and the ubiquitous fruit fly in search of the answer to this age-old debate.
Virginia’s political landscape is about to undergo significant change.
As of January, Democrats take control of the state Senate, while Republicans maintain their control in the House of Delegates.
How will this alter lawmaking in the Old Dominion?
We put that question to Governor Tim Kaine and three state Senators.
Guests:
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine - Democrat serving as the 70th Governor of Virginia. Governor Kaine took office on January 14, 2006 and will serve until January 2010.
Virginia Senator R. Creigh Deeds - Democrat serving District 25, which includes Albemarle County (Part); Alleghany County (All); Bath County (All); Buckingham County (Part); Buena Vista City (All); Charlottesville City (All); Covington City (All); Nelson County (All); and Rockbridge County (Part).
Virginia Senator Emmett Hanger, Jr. - Republican serving District 24, which includes Albemarle County (Part); Augusta County (All); Greene County (All); Highland County (All); Rockbridge County (Part); Rockingham County (Part); and the Cities of Staunton, Waynesboro and Lexington.
Virginia Senator Russell Potts, Jr. - Republican serving District 27, which includes: Clarke County (All); Fauquier County (Part); Frederick County (All); Loudoun County (Part); and Winchester City (All). Senator Potts will soon retire from his seat in the Senate.
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Friday, November 30, 2007 Health Care At Risk
Have you ever heard of something called, "the consumer driven health care movement?" It’s gaining popularity in many policy making circles, but a Virginia legal scholar claims that consumer driven health care, or health care priorities based on profit motives and market forces, is exactly the wrong direction for America to go. We ask the author of the new book Health Care at Risk to take us through his international research on health care solutions. This program was originally broadcast on August 15, 2007.
Guest:
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D. The Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law. His newest book is titled Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement.
Physicians for a National Health Program
The Consumer-Driven Health Care Institute
Every year, the Third Coast International Audio Festival highlights the best and most innovative radio productions across the globe.
Hear the world's best new documentaries representing radio at its finest: moving, insightful, surprising and sometimes even life-changing.
How highly do we regard the people who keep our vehicles running?
For most of us, the automobile has becoming an absolutely critical part of our daily lives. When it breaks down, we need it fixed fast and well.
Yet for the past one hundred years, the technical experts employed to repair cars have not gotten the same respect as many who work in other technological professions.
We talk with a former car mechanic who’s now a college professor. His new book examines the history and sociology of auto repair.
We also get some perspective from a local man who created a successful car repair business, retired, then missed fixing cars so much went back to working under the hood in someone else’s shop.
This program was originally broadcast on August 20, 2007.
Guests:
Kevin Borg, Ph.D. - Associate Professor of History at James Madison University and Author of Auto Mechanics: Technology and Expertise in Twentieth-Century America.
Mark Heisel - Auto mechanic at Wrench Craft in Harrisonburg, Virginia and former owner of Oviedo Foreign Car Repair in Oviedo, Florida.
Every year, the Third Coast International Audio Festival highlights the best and most innovative radio productions across the globe.
Hear the world's best new documentaries representing radio at its finest: moving, insightful, surprising and sometimes even life-changing.
Guest host Kristin Layng Szakos talks with Doris Moore and Diniah Bell about issues facing foster children in Virginia.
We examine the need for trained, committed foster parents, and the joys and challenges of caring for other people’s children.
Guest Host:
Kristin Layng Szakos - Freelance Journalist and lead author of the new book We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do - and Why.
Guests:
Doris Moore - Regional Director of People Places.
Diniah Bell - Social Services professional and therapeutic foster mom.
How is music like collard greens?
Nathan Moore has been writing songs since the age of 9. That’s just a bit shy of 30 years.
Now having toured all across the U.S., he says pursuing the perfect sound is a lot like the pursuit of the perfect dish of collard greens.
We ask him to explain that, and other things, on this edition of Insight.
This program was originally broadcast on July 25, 2007.
Guest:
Nathan Moore - Singer/Songwriter based in Augusta County. Moore's new album is titled In His Own Worlds.
This Thanksgiving, Insight Presents is pleased to offer an in-depth look at food in modern literature.
Find out why many people see cookbooks as something more than a source of recipes, and join us for a celebration of literary feasts that transform characters and plot lines.
What's The Word: Literary Feasts
Career success has taken you from a small southern town to the skyscrapers of Manhattan. But living in the big city makes you begin to wonder if you're losing your humanity in the process.
Could it be that technology, something that's suppose to make living easier, is actually draining your life away?
We talk with the man who answered that question by taking his family a hundred years back in time to live off the land in rural Virginia.
This program was originally broadcast on August 24, 2007.
Guest:
Logan Ward - Author of See you in a Hundred Years; Four Seasons in Forgotten America.
Our genomes are constantly at work, directing such vital functions as eating and breathing.
In this episode of the DNA Files, we'll find out why researchers are starting to understand that everything from diet to air pollution to stress has great influence on how our genomes function and what that might mean for our health.
A new book, titled An African American Community of Hope, reveals an aspect of Virginia history that few have ever heard of… but in the authors view, is also a lesson about overcoming fear.
We talk about a Valley community, created by freed Virginia slaves after the civil war. And learn how their story could still be affecting all of us.
Guests:
Nancy Bondurant Jones - Author of An African American Community of Hope: Zenda 1869-1930.
Alfred Jenkins, Jr. - President of the Longs Chapel Preservation Society.
Men have long complained that they don’t understand how women think.
Now a Virginia woman has written a book detailing how "not understanding how males think" is a problem not just for women, but for most of America’s education system.
We talk with this local educator about her theory that schools have to change if boys are going to have the same opportunities for success as girls.
This program was originally broadcast on July 30, 2007.
Guest:
Abigail Norfleet James, Ph.D. - Author of Teaching the Male Brain: How Boys Think, Feel, and Learn in School.
Climate change has always acted as an evolutionary force on the planet.
Some researchers even believe that adaptation to pre-historic climate change may have lead to the success of human beings as a species.
In this episode of the DNA Files, we'll contemplate what's different about the changes happening now.
John Hockenberry is your host as we raise the curtain on the opera of extinction and survival... looking at who wins and who loses under the shifting fortunes of climate change.
A group of women in west Albemarle want to speak with you, especially if you’ve ever been, or have any fear of someday being, diagnosed with cancer.
These women have one thing in common; they have all dealt with breast cancer.
And for more than ten years now they've been meeting in what might be called a survivors group, although they would more likely call it a thrivers group.
We celebrate their friendship and explore the power of a helping hand.
This program was originally broadcast on July 19, 2007.
Guests:
Elfie Ash - Retired artist and 11-year member of the Batesville Breast Cancer Survivors Group.
Linda Krag - Owner of Denise Interchangeable Knitting Needles and 11-year member of the Batesville Breast Cancer Survivors Group.
Sarah O’Connor, MFA - Professor of Writing & Rhetoric at James Madison University and 8-year member of the Batesville Breast Cancer Survivors Group.
The strong alliance between the United States and Turkey dates back to the early years of the Cold War.
But today, new challenges threaten this longstanding partnership.
Tune in as we explore the country’s changing political landscape and the implications for the US-Turkish alliance, and examine some of the major events in the history of the US-Turkish relationship.
We’ll also take a look at how Turkey’s refusal to allow US troops to cross through the country during Operation Iraqi Freedom has cast this once close alliance into doubt.
It was a uniquely American peace movement most Americans have never heard of.
Much of it was centered in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, and it may have changed how a whole religion defines itself.
Join the conversation as we look at newly published research into aspects of the American Civil War that has gone largely un-reported... until now.
Guests:
James O. Lehman, M.S. - Director Emeritus of Libraries at Eastern Mennonite University and Co-author of Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War.
Steven M. Nolt, Ph.D. - Professor of History at Goshen College and Co-author of Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War.
Are you normal?
Maybe you take pride in answering "no way!" to that question, but how do you judge other people who are different?
Join the conversation as we talk with Jon Mooney about his new book, The Short Bus, which challenges traditional concepts of normal, and is helping people labeled as mentally defective discover that maybe their way of seeing the world is not wrong after all.
Guests:
Jonathan Mooney - author of The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal.
Paige Pullen Ph.D. - Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Early Childhood and Developmental Risk Education Program at the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.
The billion dollar question in this election is: Who will elect the next president?
Will it be niche groups of voters who are decisive because we’re a very divided electorate? Or will there be a push to elect someone fundamentally new?
We look at how campaigns are spending the money, from TV ads to Internet search, and how they’re reaching out to influential groups such as the Christian right, Latinos, youths, and more.
How will this year's election affect you?
We do our best to connect the dots on this year’s election results.
Guests:
Bob Gibson, Columnist and political reporter for The Charlottesville Daily Progress.
Bob Roberts Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at James Madison University and author of From Watergate to Whitewater: The Public Integrity War.
Chelyen Davis, Richmond based political reporter for The Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star.
We humans think we are pretty special creatures within the animal kingdom.
But the curious thing is, as scientists try to understand what makes us different from other animals, they keep running into what makes us the same.
In this episode of the DNA Files, we'll contemplate animals at the Bronx Zoo and watch bacteria evolve in a Petri dish, as we look at genes, language, intelligence and symbiosis.
John Hockenberry is your host as we consider where our DNA diverges from, and converges with, other species... and why it matters.
How far away are you from going hungry?
For an increasing number of Virginians, disaster may actually be only one or two pay checks away.
We talk with those in our region working to prevent hunger and find out why they think the struggle is getting harder.
Guests:
Martin L. White - Chief Executive Officer of the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Teresa Yates - Director of Food Security at the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
Some people say putting Business and Ethics together makes for an oxymoron.
With the scars from Enron and World Com, plus new scandals making the headlines today, who can blame them?
We talk with two Virginians who think there is hope for the future, and believe that morality can play a more important role in the decisions made by the leaders of tomorrow.
Guests:
Bernard Jackson, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Washington and Lee University.
Bob Kolodinsky, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of Management and Director of the Gilliam Center for Ethical Business Leadership at James Madison University.
Some say manipulating genes in plants and animals is the solution to world hunger; others say genetically modified organisms are neither safe to eat or to grow.
How do we understand what’s really on our dinner plate?
In this episode of the DNA Files, we'll take you from the frontiers of genetic research all the way to your dinner table.
You'll hear about scientists putting genes from daffodils into rice, DNA from mice into pigs, and a gene from bacteria into corn.
John Hockenberry is your host as we consider the various ways genetically modified food is being produced, and the debate over the risks and rewards.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 Talking to Dead People
Have you ever talked to a dead person? Although she only recently publicly admitted her fascination with the subject, an author from our region has been asking people that question for more than 50 years. We visit with Lexington author Katie Letcher Lyle, this time about a book she’s currently writing that focuses on talking with the dead.
Guest:
Katie Letcher Lyle - Lexington, VA based writer and Author of My Neighbors’ Ghosts … and Other Amazing True Stories.
Should we stop welcoming undocumented immigrants into America?
A panel of experts tackle this issue in an Oxford-style debate, as part of the Intelligence Squared U.S. series, produced by NPR.
The panelists arguing for the motion are Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. of Cornell University, Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, and Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute.
Arguing against the motion are Daniel T. Griswold of the Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies, Enrique Morones of Border Angels, and Karen K. Narasaki of the Asian American Justice Center.
The moderator for the debate is John Hockenberry.
If you’re a musician who’s ever played in a crowded bar where most of the audience seemed to ignore you... or a potential audience member who would like to hear good music in a completely different kind of place... then this is the show for you.
We take a look at the Virginia based concept called Song-Sharing, local musicians dedicated to sharing their craft, while also doing good for others.
Guests:
Greg Allen - Charlottesville based singer, guitarist and songwriter; member of the music group Grasping At Laws; and founder of the SongSharing program.
Tom Prout - Schuyler based guitarist and songwriter; member of the duo Tom & Emily.
Julie Caran - Harrisonburg based singer/songwriter; member of the trio Blue Stone Sky.
Crime... elections... controversy in the classroom... What's the big news in your town lately?
We visit once again with the three people who oversee much of what gets on local TV news in our part of Virginia.
Guests:
Neal Bennett - News Director, NBC Affiliate WVIR-TV NBC 29, Charlottesville.
Ed Reams - News Director, ABC Affiliate WHSV-TV TV 3, Harrisonburg.
Jeremy Settle - News Director, WCAV-TV, WVAW-TV, WAHU-TV Charlottesville Newsplex: CBS 19, ABC 16, FOX 27, Charlottesville.
Explore how Joni Mitchell crafted her artistry and connected with audiences over four decades.
In this examination of one of the most heralded songwriters of her time, we'll focus on Mitchell's key releases to illuminate the musicianship of the woman Rolling Stone called "one of rock's most daring and uncompromising innovators."
Stoicism and personal independence have long been a part of the American ethic... perhaps nowhere more so that in the rural areas of our country.
So what happens in these rural places when you need help with the kind of thing that it’s just not accepted to ask help for?
We'll try to find out as we talk about the struggle to deal with mental health problems in rural Virginia.
Guests:
Emily Hauenstein, Ph.D. - The Thomas A Saunders III Family Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia, and Director of the Southeastern Rural Mental Health Research Center at UVA.
Julie Frosch, PsyNP - Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner at Blue Ridge Medical Center in Nelson County
Explore how Joni Mitchell crafted her artistry and connected with audiences over four decades.
In this examination of one of the most heralded songwriters of her time, we'll focus on Mitchell's key releases to illuminate the musicianship of the woman Rolling Stone called "one of rock's most daring and uncompromising innovators."
What if you could teach a child how to decipher the meanings of words without using a dictionary?
We delve into the patterns of meaning found in words, and explore the field of Morphology.
Guest Host:
Katherine Brooks - Co-Chair of Charlottesville-based Women United in Philanthropy, Co-Founder of The Inheritance Project and Co-Editor of The Legacy of Inherited Wealth.
Guests:
Thomas Estes, Ph.D. - Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia and from 1970 to 2001, he served as professor of Reading Education in the Curry School of Education. Dr. Estes is currently President of Dynamic Literacy, a company based in Charlottesville that is committed to improving vocabulary, language, and reading comprehension for students through the WordBuild Vocabulary Development System™.
Rollin David Larrick, Ph.D. - Retired teacher, with 35 years of teaching experience, the last 25 years as Latin and Greek teacher at Albemarle High School. Dr. Larrick is currently a Language Specialist for Dynamic Literacy.
What if you could understand so much about the human brain that you could make yours work both more easily and more efficiently?
It would probably not only make us smarter, it could make learning fun.
We talk with a Valley teacher who’s getting rave reviews for his teaching style. A style he says is based on what science has learned about the brain... a style he says anybody could use in almost any situation.
This program was originally broadcast September 3, 2007.
Guest:
John Almarode - Instructor of Math and Physics at the Shenandoah Valley Regional Governors School, and an educational consultant specializing in Brain-Based Learning.
While democracy is an ideal that unites Americans, spreading it around the world has proven difficult and often divisive.
Today, America’s efforts to bring freedom to Iraq and Afghanistan have sent democracy promotion’s stock tumbling to an all time low.
On this documentary from America Abroad, travel to the Middle East and the former Soviet republic of Georgia to examine some of the challenges, and successes, in America’s attempts to spread democracy. Also, look back at the changing role democracy promotion has played in the country’s foreign policy, and hear key policymakers involved in the effort to remove Ferdinand Marcos from power and foster a democratic government in the Philippines in the 1980s.
He felt like he had a gift for working with young children, and pursued a teaching career.
But when they told him touching or hugging a young child to comfort them was against the rules, he realized this was not the profession for him.
Hear about Bob Clickner's journey from educator to alternative healer, and find out why he is now doing some of both.
Guest:
Bob Clickner - Charlottesville based acupuncturist with offices opening soon in Harrisonburg. Blueridge Oriental
It’s easy to look back on World War II and get the impression that America was united in fighting The Good War.
But not everyone fought in the same way.
Hear two remarkable stories that reveal the different fronts in the struggle for minds and hearts during wartime, when Insight presents Battles of Belief in World War II, an American Radioworks documentary.
Some people believe that, no matter who you are, addiction is affecting your life.
Even if you’ve never battled any form of addiction yourself, chances are someone close to you has.
And the simple fact that addictions cost the U-S economy billions each year is having an impact on your pocketbook.
We talk about how to deal with addiction, and offer a few ideas for what you could do to change things.
Guests:
Mark Blackwell - Executive Director, The Substance Abuse and Addiction Recovery Alliance (SAARA).
Nancy Harden, M.S. - Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Addictions Counselor, as well as Supervisor of Substance Abuse Services at Northwestern Community Services, in Front Royal, VA.
Stan Stokes, M.S. - Founder and President of the substance abuse treatment agency, Bridging The Gaps, based in Winchester, VA.
Heard much about politics lately?
Thinking about burying the TV in the back yard and escaping to the woods until the campaign season is over?
Before you pack your pup tent, you might want to listen to this conversation for bit of political analysis, Insight style.
Give us try... our favorite political observers may be able to offer just the kind of intelligent relief you seek.
Guests:
Bob Gibson, Columnist and political reporter for The Charlottesville Daily Progress.
Bob Roberts Ph.D., Professor of Political Science at James Madison University and author of From Watergate to Whitewater: The Public Integrity War.
Jen Thompson, Director of External Relations, The Wilder School of Government at Virginia Commonwealth University and former Republican Party campaign consultant.
In the 1970s, for the first time, large numbers of white children and black children began attending school together.
It was an experience that shaped them for life.
Travel to Louisville, KY and Charlotte, NC to hear people talk about their memories of integration, when Insight presents An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era, an American Radioworks documentary.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Muzzles, the annual awards given out to those in America judged to have done the most to hurt free speech.
The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Speech hands out it’s annual Muzzle Awards in April, but with all the current free speech controversies, we've decided that six months is too long to wait.
We talk with the man who oversees the Muzzle Awards about current events and court cases that could top the awards in 2008.
Guest:
Bob O'Neil, Former President of UVA, and current Director of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. O'Neil is also the author of several books, including Free Speech: Responsible Communication Under Law, The Rights of Public Employees, and The First Amendment and Civil Liability.
Recently, American Radioworks attempted to find out the effects of high-stakes testing on students, teachers, and schools.
Follow students, teachers, and administrators from Western Guilford High School as they navigate the requirements of No Child Left Behind, when Insight presents Put To The Test, an American Radioworks documentary.
During public radio fundraisers, you hear over and over again that, "You get exceptional value from public radio, and it can only continue with your support."
But how true is that first part?
We ask NPR's Scott Horsley and Neda Ulaby, "What’s so special about public radio anyway?"
Guests:
Scott Horsley - San Diego based Business and Economy correspondent for NPR News.
Neda Ulaby - Washington, D. C. based Arts and Culture correspondent for NPR News.
They were called The Ghost Mountain Boys; in part because their World War II engagement included climbing Ghost Mountain; and in part because those who survived the climb, and the following battle, looked a lot like ghosts.
We talk with the author of a new book about perhaps the most horrendous and least reported battle American soldiers faced in the south Pacific.
And in the telling of this gripping story, there are lessons to be learned that can be applied today.
Guest:
James Campbell - Author of the recently released book, The Ghost Mountain Boys: Their Epic March and the Terrifying Battle for New Guinea - The Forgotten War of the South Pacific. Mr. Campbell is also the author of The Final Frontiersman: Heimo Korth and His Family, Alone in Alaska's Arctic Wilderness.
Is spreading democracy in the Middle East a bad idea?
A panel of experts tackle this issue in an Oxford-style debate, as part of the Intelligence Squared U.S. series, produced by NPR.
The panelists arguing for the motion are foreign policy expert Flynt Leverett, The National Interest publisher Dimitri Simes, and Iraq Study Group member Shibley Telhami.
Arguing against the motion are AEI Vice President for Foreign and Defense Policy Studies Danielle Pletka, Shalem Center Institute for Strategic Studies Director Natan Sharansky, and Liz Cheney.
The moderator for the debate is Robert Siegel of NPR's All Things Considered.
One is the story of women exercising exceptional power in the interest of peace.
The other is the story of a man who jousts with windmills as he dreams of bringing justice to the world.
One story now on stage in the Valley, the other in Charlottesville
We take a closer look at the local theater productions of Lysistrata and Man of La Mancha.
Guest Host:
Peter Sheras, Ph.D - Clinical psychologist specializing in adolescent relationships, family relationships, and stress. Professor in UVA's Curry Programs in Clinical and School Psychology.
Guests:
Virginia Francisco, Ph.D. - Professor of Theater at Mary Baldwin College and Director of Mary Baldwin’s current production of Lysistrata.
Kylene Henry - plays the role of "Lysistrata" in the Mary Baldwin production.
Meggan Mercer - plays the role of "Calonice" in the Mary Baldwin production.
Alex Citron - Executive Director of Play On! Theatre and Director of the group’s current production of Man of La Mancha.
Bill Brown - plays the roles of "Miguel De Cervantes", "Alonso Quijana" and "Don Quixote" in the Play On! production.
Aaron Hale - plays the roles of "Manservant" and "Sancho Panza" in the Play On! production.
Hear stories of people living out dreams of paradise... and sometimes waking up to a nightmare.
Sam Hurst and Dean Olsher discover the pain of loving land that gives you nothing but trouble.
Natalie Edwards faces a personal chamber of horrors at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
And a few sleepless Hawaiians plot the extinction of a noisy nocturnal nuisance: the Coqui Frog.
Is there a science to teaching?
Sara Rimm-Kaufman says the answer to that question is not only a resounding yes, but more than ever today, the structure of America’s classrooms needs to be based on provable, scientific principles.
We talk with Dr. Rimm-Kaufman and Lee Webb, a local school teacher using some of those principles with her second grade class.
Guests:
Sara Rimm-Kaufman, Ph.D. - Professor at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Director of the University of Virginia Social Development Lab.
Lee Webb, MA - Second grade teacher at Woodbrook Elementary in Albemarle County.
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