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Despite the gains made after the 1954 desegregation ruling Brown Versus Board of Education, schools today are more segregated than ever. My guest Jonathan Kozol, well known for his books about the American educational system and children’s rights, such as Savage Inequalities, has a new book out. It’s called “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.” Kozol visited 60 schools in 11 states over a five-year period and found that schools in the US are racially segregated, and that wealthy white suburbanites receive far better facilities and resources for their children than poor children of color. Kozol believes that a new civil rights movement will be necessary to eradicate the injustices of the educational system.

GUEST: Jonathan Kozol, author of “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid …

“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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We spend the hour today speaking with Sarah Sentilles, who wrote down her memoirs of two years in Compton, Southern California. She was teaching elementary school there. After graduating from Yale University, Sarah joined a program called Teach for America and was sent to Compton. Far from the life of privilege and the protected environment she was raised in, she found herself in charge of thirty-six first graders in a classroom without books. There she experienced her own education. I spoke with Sarah Sentilles recently and asked her to begin by reading an excerpt of her book, “Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton.”

GUEST: Sarah Sentilles, author of “Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton”

Get Lit Players Use Poetry to Push Literacy in Schools

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* FCC Rules Will Disproportionately Affect People of Color and Poor
* Black Agenda Report on the Recently Passed FCC Rules
* Why DADT Was Repealed While DREAM Failed
* South Korea Provokes North Korea with US Backing

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FCC Rules Will Disproportionately Affect People of Color and Poor

Following months of debate, the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted 3-2 to approve a set of rules governing aspects of the Internet. The two Republicans who voted against approval said the new rules on …

On Monday Dec 27 – Wednesday Dec 29, we’ll hear a three part series on Education with Sarah Sentilles, author of “Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton,” the Get Lit Players and their poetry, Jonathan Kozol on his book, “The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America,” Glen Ford on education privatization, and Dr. Steven Hughes, President-Elect of the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology on the Montessori method of education.

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The so-called Peace Talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority have broken down just months after they started over a number of issues, in particular the building of illegal Israeli settlements. Khaled Meshaal, a prominent political leader of Hamas, the militant Palestinian party, was among the most vocal opponents of the process. Meshaal is one of several prominent figures in the Middle East interviewed by US based journalist Reese Erlich and is featured in his brand new book Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire. In addition to Meshaal, Erlich explores the politics of the Middle East and Muslim world through figures like the Zionist leader Geula Cohen, the Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, the late Grand Ayatollah of Lebanon Mohammad Fadlallah, a former Iranian …

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In the 1970s, Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren pioneered the idea of permaculture at the University of Tasmania. Permaculture, a combination of the words “permanent” and “agriculture,” focuses on the relationships between deep ecology, landscape architecture and agriculture. Permaculture practitioners try to minimize their ecological impact by living on farms and in homes that produce zero waste, do not depend on fossil fuels or toxic chemicals to function, and often mimic surrounding ecosystems in form and function. Since its inception thirty years ago, permaculture has skyrocketed in popularity in Los Angeles. The LA Eco-Village, founded in 1993, is an example of a community that has radically been transformed by the principles of permaculture. The Village, which spans across areas in East Hollywood and Koreatown, is a working-class neighborhood that …

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Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.

Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.

Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch his videos at www.youtube.com/user/jsjkim, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ReThinkReviews. ReThink Reviews’ theme song is by Restavrant.

The Company Men

nMore and more Americans are finding themselves jobless for longer than they would’ve thought possible. And if you listen to many republicans, it’s their own fault, a consequence of underachieving at school, a bad work ethic, or laziness caused by those fat unemployment checks.

That’s why it’s a good time for the Company Men, …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the recently passed FCC Rules.

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“A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living” – Rudolph Steiner