Knowledge Matters, Spending Time With Kids, Edgar Allan PoeTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 410
Oct 26, 2016 • 1h 40m
Why Knowledge Matters
Guest: E.D. Hirsch, Jr., PhD, Professor Emeritus of Education and Humanities at the University of Virginia, Acclaimed Literary Critic, Founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation, Author of “Why Knowledge Matters”
More than half of Americans – 55% - tell Gallup polls they are not satisfied with kindergarten-through-high school education in the U.S. They blame politicians, federal laws like No Child Left Behind, state-based Common Core Standards, and teachers’ unions. But, it is possible that the real culprit is the curriculum teachers are expected to teach.
NaNoWriMo
Guest: Grant Faulkner, Executive Director of NaNoWriMo
November 1st could mark a new chapter in your life. Literally. It’s the first day of NaNoWriMo, short for National Novel Writing Month. Every November, thousands of people pound out 50,000-word-novels. That’s about 200 pages in 31 days. Does that sound like something you could never do? Our next guest would like to convince you otherwise.
Altruism
Guest: Ulrich Mayr, PhD, Head of the Psychology Department at the University of Oregon
Generosity can have many motives. You might give money to a charity because you believe giving is good and you enjoy seeing others benefit. But maybe, deep down, you wouldn’t be making that gift if there weren’t a tax write-off in it for you or some measure of social prestige.
Apple Seed
Guest: Sam Payne, Host of BYUradio’s “The Apple Seed”
Same Payne joins us in the studio to share tales of tellers and stories.
Spending Time With Kids
Guest: Judy Treas, PhD, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
If you, like many parents, feel guilty for not spending enough time with your kids, take comfort in this new study coming out of the University of California, Irvine. It finds parents today are spending a lot more time with their children thant parents did in the 1960s.
Tell-Tale Heart
Guest: Carl Sederholm, PhD, Department Chair for Comparative Arts and Letters at BYU; Dennis Perry, PhD, Associate Professor