Education Today

02.01.23 - 2:30pm

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French teachers are among the millions protesting the government’s devastating “reforms.”  Millions in the street just yesterday.   Hear a  teacher from France and a U.S. teacher discuss what it all means to them.

01.25.23 - 2:30pm

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We interview a USC researcher who found interesting new insights about the impact of participation in music on the sense of well-being for children and adolescents.

01.18.23 - 2:30pm

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The new Oakland school board voted to rescind the closure of five schools.  Hear teachers from two of those schools about what it means to them and the school’s families.    The joy, the celebration, the plans, the worries….and the politics.

01.11.23 - 2:30pm

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Hosts, Kitty and Jaron, interview labor and community leader, the “real” Clarence Thomas.  Clarence and other ILWU Local 10 members and retirees penned a letter critiquing U.S. policy in Ukraine, and the absence of pushback from the anti-war movement.   In this interview Clarence,  explains the letter and provides a bit of fascinating history on this … Continued

01.04.23 - 2:30pm

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Some years ago high school internships were often a boring stint filing in somebody’s office.  But these days Oakland high school students are learning to be sailors and veterinarians and reading teachers.   Hear all about it from the organizers and participants.

12.28.22 - 2:30pm

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  Kitty talks with guest, Professor Don Trent Jacobs (Four Arrows), on issues of higher education and activism. Is getting a doctorate as stuffy as it sounds? What are alternative dissertations? How can earning a higher ed degree and changing the world connect?

12.21.22 - 2:30pm

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Holy Names University, which has one of the most diverse student bodies of any higher education institution in the country,  is closing after 154 years.  How are faculty and students dealing with this?  What is the Oakland community planning for the future educational needs of its young people?

12.14.22 - 2:30pm

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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.

12.07.22 - 2:30pm

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Education Today is a radio show hosted by Kitty Kelly Epstein that alternates weekly and airs on Odd weeks.

11.30.22 - 2:30pm

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Hear Oakland attorney and organizer, Walter Riley,  discuss what organizing needs to look like as a  follow up on Oakland’s somewhat amazing electoral victories in Mayor, D.A., City Council, school board and ballot measure races.