Education in Post-NCLB Era

Education in Post-NCLB Era

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 265 , Segment 4

Episode: Palestinian Hope for Peace, Crane Migration, Web Therapy

  • Mar 31, 2016 9:00 pm
  • 52:11 mins

Guests: Vernon Henshaw, PhD, BYU Education Faculty and Retired Superintendent of Alpine School District; Suzanne Bolingbroke, Director of Literacy for Alpine School District; Suzanne Parker, Instructional Coach and Literacy Specialist for Provo School District  An era ended in mid-December when Congress passed – and the President signed – a law called The Every Student Succeeds Act. It replaces the No Child Left Behind Act, which was enacted in 2002 and for more than a decade would come to define – and to some defile – America’s system of educating its youth.

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Crane Migration

17m

Guest: John French, PhD, Biologist and Director at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center  The brilliant-white whooping crane is among nature’s most majestic birds and the tallest in North America, standing nearly five feet. They’re also endangered. So for the past 15 years, government biologists have been breeding whopping cranes in captivity and teaching them to migrate south to Florida in what seems like an outlandish experiment: Picture a guy dressed head to toe in a white suit to hide his human-ness – he even has a fake beak on his white-hooded head. And he’s leading a flock of cranes to their southern destination in one of those tiny, super-light-weight aircraft that’s more like a bicycle with wings. And the craziest thing is that it worked, but not without consequences.

Guest: John French, PhD, Biologist and Director at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center  The brilliant-white whooping crane is among nature’s most majestic birds and the tallest in North America, standing nearly five feet. They’re also endangered. So for the past 15 years, government biologists have been breeding whopping cranes in captivity and teaching them to migrate south to Florida in what seems like an outlandish experiment: Picture a guy dressed head to toe in a white suit to hide his human-ness – he even has a fake beak on his white-hooded head. And he’s leading a flock of cranes to their southern destination in one of those tiny, super-light-weight aircraft that’s more like a bicycle with wings. And the craziest thing is that it worked, but not without consequences.