Posts Tagged ‘interviews’
Friday, December 19th, 2008
Tomorrow morning, I’ll be on Smart City Radio, a weekly public-radio news program, talking with host Carol Coletta about Whatever It Takes. As the Smart City web site puts it:
What would it take to change the lives of poor children? Not one by one, but in big numbers, and in a big way. That’s the question that led Geoffrey Canada to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a place to test new and controversial ideas about poverty and education. We’ll speak with author and journalist Paul Tough about his experience writing his book about the Harlem Children’s Zone, and the future of this innovative experiment.
The audio is now online here.
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
On Friday I’ll be on To the Point, a news talk program broadcast nationally on public radio, discussing education politics and the choice of Arne Duncan as education secretary. My fellow guests are Randi Weingarten, Rick Hess and Joe Williams. As the show’s website explains:
Barack Obama has picked a secretary of education who’s endorsed both sides of the raging debate over how to improve American schools. Will he become an agent of change or will splitting the difference reinforce the status quo? Why is Obama so focused on early childhood education?
Check here for stations and times.
Tags: Arne Duncan, California, interviews, radio
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Geoffrey Canada on last night’s Colbert Report:
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Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Yesterday on “Midday with Dan Rodricks,” on WYPR, I talked about Whatever It Takes and the idea of replicating the Harlem Children’s Zone in Baltimore.
As Rodricks summarized on his blog:
The Harlem Children’s Zone is a groundbreaking initiative to help impoverished neighborhoods with high crime and low levels of academic achievement. Could it work in Baltimore? We’ll talk with Paul Tough, author of Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America, and with Matthew Joseph, Executive Director of Advocates for Children and Youth, who would like to see taxpayer resources go into a Harlem Children’s Zone-like project here. Done well over time, it could save hundreds of millions in government social and justice expenditures.
Here’s the audio.
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Today on Edutopia.com, an online magazine, an interview I did with Bernice Yeung on the process of reporting and writing Whatever It Takes. I said things like:
The prekindergarten teachers were just so focused on and conscious of language, on how to get language into every part of the day to expand these kids’ vocabularies, which all this research shows is exactly what the students need the most at that stage.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Here’s an interview I did last month with Julia McEvoy of Chicago Public Radio, broadcast today on WBEZ’s morning show, “Eight Forty-Eight.” As their web site puts it:
Many Chicago area educators are counting on the president-elect to make schools a top priority in the year ahead. One plan that Barack Obama cites as a model for the rest of the country, is the Harlem Children’s Zone. There, a man named Geoffrey Canada believes that to successfully educate students he must take a holistic approach focusing on the community where they live.
Author Paul Tough has just written a book called Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America. Tough sat down with Chicago Public Radio’s education desk editor Julia McEvoy to talk about what Chicago can learn from the Harlem experiment.
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Geoffrey Canada and I talking about education, the election and the Harlem Children’s Zone on The Brian Lehrer Show this morning on WNYC radio.
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Tavis Smiley’s PBS show has now posted video of the complete interview he did with me and Geoffrey Canada this week, as well as a transcript of our conversation.
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Geoff Canada and I will be on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS on Friday. You’ll note I wasn’t sure what to do with my hands.
Check local listings for times and channels.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Geoff Canada and I are on Michel Martin’s NPR show “Tell Me More” today. Internet audio is up now here. On her blog, Ms. Martin talks about her decision not to preempt us.
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