Update on Community & Public School Relationship; Taimane Gardner; Futures Studies in Hawaii; Ko`ie`ie Hawaiian Fishpond Cultural Canoe Tour
Update on Community & Public School Relationship: Jim Shon
Preliminary numbers released by the US Department of Education last week show Hawaii’s graduation rate lost less than a percentage point from the 82 percent posted in the 2013-14 school year. The national average is 81 percent. On the Garden Island, Kauai High school posted an 84.8% graduation rate for the same school year. Area complex superintendent Bill Arakaki says the reason for that and other Kauai high school rates is community partnerships. Hawaii Educational Policy Center executive director Jim Shon joined The Conversation to look at the nexus of better school performance and community involvement.
- Intro Music: Wolf Burger by Hot 8 Brass Band
- Outro Music: A Calf Born In Winter by Khruangbin
Hallowballoo Performer: Taimane Gardner
Taimane Gardner began her music career as a teenage ukulele virtuoso with a knack for breaking boundaries, performing everything from Bach to Led Zeppelin. These days she’s expanding her palette with performance art, ritual, and a focus on the mystical. It’s an ongoing exploration of herself and the world around her with music as the vehicle. She’s getting ready to perform in downtown Honolulu on Halloween as part of the Hallowbaloo street festival.
- Intro Music: Battle by Taimane
- Outro Music: Black Widow's Breakfast by Taimane
Futures Studies in Hawaii: Jairus Grove
It’s one thing no one has been able to do: predict the future… and it’s not something the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies attempts to do either. The Center started in the early 1970s by now internationally known futurist, Jim Dator. Recently the Center began a new era with the appointment of its second director, UH professor Jairus Grove. We sat down and I asked him about his take on stepping into the shoes of such a well-defined personality, how much of that legacy he will take away, and where would he would like to take the Center’s focus in the future.
- Intro Music: Soft Shock by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Outro Music: The Future Song by Vanessa Paradis
Ko`ie`ie Hawaiian Fishpond Cultural Canoe Tour: Joylynn Paman
As the world moves toward a model of sustainability and begins, belatedly, to understand the negative effects of poor resource management, we return, again and again, to the examples set by pre-contact Hawaiian life. The fishpond is one of the most ingenious… a design that allows fish to be brought in from the open sea, raised under controlled conditions, and harvested for food. On Maui the Ko`ie`ie Fishpond in North Kihei is the focus of a determined effort to keep lessons of the past alive and created a living example of sustainability in the midst of a growing modern community. Joylynn Paman is the director of `Ao`ao O Na Loko I`a O Maui, the Maui Fishpond Association, and she joined the show via phone to tell us about it.
- Intro Music: Barcelona by George Ezra
- Outro Music: Gone Fishing by Jake Shimabukuro
