Obama's Foreign Policy, Later School Start Times

Assessing Obama’s Foreign Policy Legacy Guest: David Milne, PhD, Historian of US Foreign Policy, Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, Author of “Worldmaking: The Art and Science of American Diplomacy” How will Barack Obama’s foreign policy efforts be remembered? Will he be the President who killed Osama Bin Laden? The President who opted not to get involved in Syria’s civil war, only to see it drag on for years and spark a refugee crisis? Will he be the President who quietly revolutionized warfare with his extensive use of drones? President Obama has made clear he’d like to be remembered for his work building an international commitment to combat climate change.  When Kids Miss Too Much School Guest: Hedy Chang, Executive Director of the Advocacy Group Attendance Works A little more than ten percent of school kids in the US are chronically absent, missing at least three weeks of class in a year. But only recently have states and school districts begun a concerted effort to look at attendance data and better understand what’s behind the absenteeism. The US Department of Education began collecting nationwide data on chronic absence in 2013. New analysis of those numbers by the advocacy group Attendance Works sheds light on where the problem is biggest.  Schools Need to Start Later Guest: Kyla Wahlstrom, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota There’s growing evidence that teenagers just aren’t built to wake up early. Kyla Wahlstrom claims that if we’d just let teens sleep in a bit longer and push the school start time back to 9, we could reduce teen car crashes, raise student grades, and cut down on teenage angst all at the same time.  How the UN Can Address Human Trafficking Guest: James Cockayne, PhD, Head of Office at the UN for the United Nations University International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney took the United Nations to task last week for failing to prevent or punish the genocide ISIS is perpetrating against m