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Today on Flashpoints:The extreme right wing Japanese Prime Minister in the US to meet with Barack Obama, address congress and get a personal tour of Silicon Valley. Also, Native Americans go to the United Nations to protest the elevation of Father Junipero Serra to sainthood by the pope and the Roman Catholic Church. And The Biggz Beat returns with The big Gay hypocrisy Pt. 2

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Flashpoints 04-30-15

Flashpoints examines the past, present & future of public education through a social justice lens.  Broadcasts every Wednesday for 15 weeks, which began March 18, 2015.

This series is produced and hosted by Ken Yale

Episode 7 (Aired April 29th 2015)

Shifting Paradigms, Part I: Standardized To Student-Centered

Addresses a key pillar of the corporate education agenda: standardization through Common Core standards and high-stakes testing.  Presents contrasting paradigms for social justice education.  Profiles a student-centered, inquiry-based classroom that models teaching and learning not typically assessed in standardized testing.

Guests:

Dr. Joel Westheimer: Professor of Education & Democracy at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and an education columnist or Canadian Public Radio.

Dr. Chela Delgado, 12th grade Government & Economics teacher, and her students at Coliseum College Prep Academy, Oakland Unified School District

Jesse Hagopian: History teacher and leader of standardized testing boycott at Garfield High School in Seattle.  Associate Editor of Rethinking Schools Magazine and author.  Founding member of Social Equality Educators

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Education Series: Episode 7

Today on Flashpoints: An update on the devastation in Nepal. Workers protest the hedge fund buyout of American Apparel in Los Angeles. Our Flashpoints multi-part series, “The Battle for Public Education In the 21st Century” continues. And rising opposition to expensive and destructive testing in the US public schools.

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Flashpoints 04-29-15

Today on Flashpoints: As Baltimore goes up in flames, their Governor calls in the National Guard. We’ll feature an update from the ground there. Also, tragedy in Nepal. We’ll have two reports about the unfolding situation in that earth-quake devastated nation. And we have our weekly feature, the Electronic Intifada hosted by Nora Barrows Friedman

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Flashpoints 04-28-15

Today on Flashpoints: A special extended report on a new federal civil law suit, in connection with the recent San Francisco police killing and apparent cover-up of 20 year old Amilcar Perez-Lopez in San Francisco s largely Latino Mission District.

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Flashpoints 04-27-15

Today on Flashpoints: Will there be justice for 23 year old Amilear Perez-Lopez, who was gunned down in cold blood by violent out of control San Francisco cops. And we’ll report on the hidden story of Tanzania’s socialist villages, the subject of a brand new book “Ujamaa”, which describes post colonial Tanzania’s successful model of development from the grassroots.

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Flashpoints 04-23-15

Flashpoints examines the past, present & future of public education through a social justice lens.  Broadcasts every Wednesday for 15 weeks, which began March 18, 2015.

This series is produced and hosted by Ken Yale

Episode 6 (Aired April 22nd 2015)

“Corporatizing Every Level”

Connects the parallel strategies & impact of the corporate education agenda on K-12 public schools & higher education. Profiles the attempt to close City College of San Francisco as a case study.

Guests:

Allan Fisher: ESL Instructor at City College of San Francisco. Former president of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121.  Leader in Save CCSF Coalition.

Bill Ayers: Professor of Education & Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired).  Founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society

Rick Ayers: Professor in Teacher Education at the University of San Francisco. Founder of the Communication Arts & Sciences School at Berkeley High School

Pasi Sahlberg: Visiting professor at Harvard ‘s Graduate School of Education and former Director General in Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture

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Flashpoints: Education Series Part 6

Today on Flashpoints: Government lies still killing gulf-war vets. Also, Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, released from prison after serving 90 days for resisting drone mass murders by the US Government at the highest levels. We remember the 20th anniversary of the Kibeho Massacre in Rwanda. And our flashpoints multi-part series, “The Battle for Public Education In the 21st Century” continues.

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Flashpoints 04-22-15

Today on Flashpoints: hundreds of refugees fleeing Libya and failed US war policy there, drown by the hundreds trying to escape. Also, an update on the Korean ferry disaster that killed over 300. 250 of them were high school kids. And a lifetime of resisting Israeli apartheid

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Flashpoints 04-21-15

Today on a special 420 edition of Flashpoints: We feature an update on the current battle to make medical and recreational pot safe, legal and easily available. We’ll also feature a special on the latest breakthrough on the uses of CBD and other forms of pot for medical uses. We’ll get a report on what congress is planning in terms of legalization of pot at the federal level. And actress Sherry Glasser shares her own battle with the feds as part of her work as a care giver.

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