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It’s Monday, August 27 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation.

Taxing our patience and our wallets with DOE due process hearings.

Ronn Nozoe is deputy superintendent of the Hawaii State Department of Education. He joined the DOE as a teacher in 1995. In 2000, he moved to administration and now leads, directs and supervises the DOE's academic programs in the DOE's 15 Complex Areas, and in the Military Liaison Program, Special Projects and in the Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Student Support.

Madieran melody maker morphs into a jumping flea...     

Jim Tranquada is the co-author of “The Ukulele: A History”  and  director of communications at Occidental College. As he likes to say, he  is also an embarrassingly bad 'ukulele player.

Whole parent childhoods: campus kids come to class

Liam Skilling is the Director of the Evening Part-time Division and Director of Academic Success at the William S. Richardson School of Law. He is the father of two daughters, Talulah and Violette. When he was a student at Richardson, Liam became involved with the Students with Keiki organization and he is currently its faculty advisor.

An unplugged style long before  acoustic was retro...

Rick Towill of Ka Himeni Ana. If you love to play Hawaiian Nahenahe style, well, you’ve got less than a year to practice for the 29th annual competition. It happens august 24, 2013.

Plus a backyard quiz, today’s reality check and the world view from Deutsche Welle…first the news… from NPR