REWIND: Islamic Schools, Town on Fire, RunPee App

What Islamic Schools Really Teach Guest: Charles Glenn, PhD,  Professor of Educational Leadership at Boston University  We’re well into the month of Ramadan – the holy month when Muslims fast from food and drink from sun up to sundown. Only about 1 percent of the US population is Muslim, so imagine the challenge of going an entire month in the heat of summer without eating or drinking during the day while your colleagues and classmates snack and sip away in front of you.  Ramadan is probably a little easier for Muslim kids enrolled in the 230 or so Islamic high schools in the US where fasting at Ramadan is the rule, not the exception. My next guest has spent years interviewing students, teachers and parents involved in Islamic schools to better understand what’s being taught there. Public polls show Americans, in general, are very skeptical of the how committed Muslims living in the US are to being American. Many worry Islamic schools teach extreme ideology. Recycled Hollywood Stories Guest: Chris Hansen, MFA, award-winning writer, director. Director, Film and Digital Media Division of Baylor University’s Department of Communication  The biggest Hollywood blockbusters these days all seem to feel just a little familiar, don’t they? Independence Day, X-Men, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Finding Dory. Why doesn’t Hollywood seem interested in trying something new these days? Conversations About Death Guest: Karl Lorenz, MD, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and at The RAND Corporation; Section Chief for the Veterans Health Administration-Stanford Programs in Palliative Care Here’s a stunning fact to consider – back when Medicare was signed into law 50 years ago, most people died in their homes and the life sustaining treatments we’ve come to consider standard procedure hadn’t been invented yet. Technological advances have helped us live longer. But are we living better? We’re definitely not dying better, according to the doctors and researchers who focus on end-of-life care.  The Town on Fire Gu