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The State of American Empire in 2012 – 2011 One of the Deadliest Years for Journalists – Public Approval of Congress Plummets in 2011 – The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar

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“Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life.” – Maria Montessori

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On Monday we heard the story of Sarah Sentilles, author of “Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton.” On Tuesday, part 2 of our three-part education special was a conversation with Jonathan Kozol on his book The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. Today, as part 3 of our holiday education special, we spend the hour with Dr. Steven Hughes, an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and President-Elect of the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology. Dr. Hughes is an advocate of what’s called the Montessori method of education, created over a hundred years ago by Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori. In the early 1900s, Montessori was asked to develop a curriculum for poor and homeless children in …

“The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.

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“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”

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Uprising’s first show of the New Year brings a look the 2012 political landscape as the Iowa caucus kicks off election season. Akiba Solomon joins us to discuss what challenges the reproductive rights movement will face in this Presidential election year, and members of the United Painters and Public Artists talk about a city and artist effort to revive the city’s mural culture.

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Occupy Wall Street is barely a few months old but has already been dubbed the new progressive movement of our era. Internet technology has boosted the movement’s reach and sped up its growth. However, given its infancy, how much can be attributed to Occupy Wall Street’s influence and how resilient is it in the long-term? Today, to answer these and other questions, we spend the hour with one of Los Angeles’ most well-known and revered activists, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Reverend James Lawson.

Rev. Lawson has been an activist since the 1950s, beginning with his refusal to fight in the Korean war. After spending over a year in prison, he traveled to India where he worked as a minister and teacher at Hislop College in Nagpur. While there he learned about Mahatma Gandhi’s …