Hong Kong and Sudan, Education Disabilities, Teens & Cancer

Protests in Hong Kong and Sudan Guest: Quinn Mecham, professor of political science, BYU Large protests are underway in Hong Kong over a proposed law that would allow people to be sent to China for trial. The Standards by which Educational Disabilities Are Judged Can Vary Between Schools Guest: Dara Shifrer, Sociology, Portland State University The likelihood that a student in a US public school will be diagnosed with a learning disability and enrolled in special ed depends a lot on the school that kids attends. Wait, why would the school matter? Shouldn’t a student’s needs be the same, regardless of where he’s enrolled?  Trials of Teens with Cancer Go Beyond Health Guest: Amanda Garbatini, Adolescent/Young Adult Program Coordinator for Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital Being a teenager is tough enough without having to deal with a cancer diagnosis. Treatment wreaks havoc on a changing body. Frequent hospital visits make it tough to maintain a social life. Plus, at that age, they’re too old for the cartoon characters and stuffed animals of the children’s hospital, but not quite comfortable in the adult oncology wing, either. Amanda Garbatini knows all about that. She’s had numerous bouts of cancer starting at age 11. Now, 20 years later she’s heading up a new center for teens with cancer at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. Communities Benefit from Local News, but Journalism Is on a Decline Guest: John Temple, Associate Adjunct Professor and Director of the Investigative Reporting Program, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism The Great Recession ten years ago accelerated a trend that the internet had set in motion a decade earlier –the decline of local newspapers. Those that made their money off classifieds withered thanks to Craigslist. Then advertisers shifted to the web. There are more than a thousand communities around the country that have lost all local media coverage during this shift, but the majority Americans –according to a Pew Research survey –think local media is doing just fine.