This year 116 Vermont
schools, or 38 percent, failed to meet federal standards for ‘Adequate Yearly
Progress’ under the No Child Left Behind Act. Richard Cate, Vermont’s outgoing Commissioner of Education, is our guest as we explore
what the latest test results say about education in Vermont. We also check in with educators to
learn what some schools are doing to satisfy the law’s requirements, what obstacles they
face, and how the law itself is affecting the way schools teach. (Listen)
Also on the program, Burlington Telecom is one of a very few
U.S. cable television systems that carry the English language broadcast of Al
Jazeera, the Arabic news network. A recent attempt by the municipally-run carrier to drop
the controversial broadcast has sparked its own controversy. We hear what’s
behind it, and what’s next, from Greg Epler-Wood, who chairs the committees that
advise Burlington Telecom on programming issues. (Listen)
And we meet the St. Johnsbury Academy robotics team that won the Rookie Prize in an international competition. (Listen)
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