Wednesday, August 6th – from HPR2, it’s The Conversation
If you've been following the ongoing educational dialogue, you know we're deep into a movement to reform Hawaii's school system. Testing and teacher accountability in student performance are two of the central ideas. Social scientist and political analyst Neal Milner joins us now to put Hawaii's drive for educational reform into the context of the Long View... some of the data we should consider and often don't.
Intro Music: Dirty Money by Antibalas
Outro Music: Modern Inventions by The Submarines
See/Rescue Streamer Inventor: Robert Yonover
Many of us are inventors at heart. We see a gizmo that we use in our daily lives and imagine ways we could improve upon it… but usually our ideas, even the good ones, go no further than the daydreaming stage. We just don’t follow through. Dr. Robert Yonover is someone who does. He’s the real thing: an inventor whose ideas, such as the See/Rescue Streamer, have actually come to fruition and are in use around the world. He’s interested not only in advancing his own ideas, but in encouraging others to bring theirs forward as well, and he joined the show in studio to talk story. Robert Yonover is also the author of Hardcore Inventing: Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Inventions.
Intro Music: A Simple Plan by Pedro the Lion
Outro Music: My Best Theory by Jimmy Eat World
Immigration Policies and Reform: Stan Bain
Over the last months, most of the conversation about immigration centers on securing the US Southwest border and the now over 60 thousand unaccompanied Central American minors waiting in US detention centers. For illegal adults who came as kids with their parents, some are finding refuge under the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals... but that journey isn't an easy one. Stan Bain is the founding organizer of the Hawaii Coalition for Immigration Reform and he joined the show in our studio.
Intro Music: Chambers by Cymbals Eat Guitars
Outro Music: Maps by The Last Dinosaur
Nu’u Reserve Hike on Maui: Scott Fisher
Habitat restoration and the preservation of pristine natural sites in Hawaii are a life’s mission for some of us who live in the islands, and all of us are the beneficiaries. Those sites are all too rare, nonetheless, and that’s why opportunities to visit them are especially valuable. This Saturday the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust is offering a hike through the Nu’u Reserve on Maui, an adventure that offers a look at this island in its untouched natural state as well as a glimpse of its pre-contact history. Scott Fisher is leading the hike, and he joined the show via phone to talk about it.
Intro Music: ...And the Hazy Sea by Cymbals Eat Guitars
Outro Music: M?kena by Ian O'Sullivan
