Parent Previews

Guest: Gordon Capp, Ph.D., Student in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern California  Along with the new generation of U.S. veterans ushered in by the decade-long War on Terror, has come a new generation of children growing up in military households. An estimated four million students nationwide – mostly in public schools – have parents who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. A comprehensive new study of military-connected students sheds light on the challenges they’re facing at home and at school.

Guest: Paula Findlen, Ph.D., Professor of Italian History and Chair of the Department of History at Stanford University  The women of Bologna are so legendary, there’s even a page dedicated to them on the Italian city’s tourism website. They’re known as Medieval Feminists – highly-educated and influential at a time when women were generally considered less-than-men.  Their stories are a point of great pride in Italy. They’re also largely fiction according to the research of Paula Findlen.

Guest: Kevin Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Athletic Training at Central Michigan University  Young athletes are back on the field, conditioning in the late-summer heat to prepare for fall sports. Fears of dehydration loom large among coaches and parents – to the point they may actually be encouraging too much drinking. While dehydration is unpleasant and undesirable, it’s rarely fatal. The opposite condition is – and it’s become enough of a problem that some new guidelines have been developed.

Guests: Richard Young, Professor of Education at BYU; Lynnette Christensen, Researcher in the Center for the Improvement of Teacher Education & Schooling; Mike Alder, Director of BYU’s Technology Transfer office