Re: Classroom Stuggles

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Listen To the Current Show!
"The Politics of Classroom Practice"


With special guests...


Patrick Shannon 
A former preschool and primary grade school teacher, Patrick Shannon is a 
professor of education at Penn State University. He studies the social and 
political consequences of education policy with a particular interest in the impact 
on literacy and its uses. Recently elected as the (youngest!) member of the 
International Reading Association Reading Hall of Fame, he is working with other 
members to repeal many aspects of No Child Left Behind. His books include: 
text. lies & videotape, Reading Poverty, Becoming Political, Too, and 
forthcoming, Save Our Local Schools. 
and



Norman Conard





Social studies teacher at Uniontown High School, Uniontown Kansas, Norm 
Conard's diversity project assignment led to his students' research on Irena 
Sendler, a little known Polish Catholic woman who saved more than 2500 Jewish babies 
and children from the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Their play, "Life in a Jar" 
based on her story, has been presented nationally and internationally, leading 
to two visits by the students to meet Irena Sendler in Poland, her subsequent 
world recognition for heroism, and a foundation to help support her nursing 
home care. 
Next show: 
Gloria Pipkin and Releah Cossett Lent 
Authors of Silent No More: Voices of Courage in American schools

and


Steve Orel 
Director and lead instructor of A World of Opportunity