Boys are on the losing end of a growing achievement gap with
girls. In the latest round of school
assessment tests in Vermont,
boys, on average, scored below girls in math, reading, and writing. We examine how our culture can better support
and encourage the success of boys in the classroom. Our guests are Richard Hawley, a
longtime educator and the author of the new book, Beyond the Icarus Factor, and Dave Landers, a Psychology and Gender
Studies Professor at St. Michael’s College. (Listen)
Also, if you want a new job, you send in a resume and wait
to hear back, right? It turns out such an approach may be outdated
in a new Web 2.0 world-where everything is digitally interactive. We talk with Rebecca Joffrey, the Associate
Director of the Career Development Office at Dartmouth’s
Tuck School of Business, about how social networking and blogs are changing
business recruiting practices. (Listen)
And, do you know which continent is the only one that has
every kind of climate? Or what river
runs west to east across the northern part of Italy? We bring you some of the sounds, and
questions, from Vermont’s
Geography Bee in Middlebury. (Listen)
**Geography Bee answers: North America,
Po River