July 7, 2003 -
July 7, 2003 - School districts around the country are bracing for today's release of "the List." The federal government is expected to release its list of public schools that are not making adequate progress in student achievement according to the "No Child Left Behind Act." Minneapolis and St. Paul schools are expected to dominate the list in Minnesota. Joining us on the line is Pat Harvey... superintendent of the St. Paul Public School District. That is St. Paul School Superintendent Pat Harvey.
July 8, 2003 - An English teacher in Japan has caused an international stir by exposing some strange coincidences between the recent lyrics of Bob Dylan and a book by Japanese doctor and writer Junichi Saga. Chris Johnson, a native of Minnesota, is a Dylan aficionado who happened across Saga's "Confessions of a Yakuza" in a Japanese book store. Saga's book is an oral history of a gangster who was one of Saga's patients. On a Dylan internet site, Johnson claims that lines on Dylan's latest album "Love and Theft" were lifted from Saga's book. Paul Williams is the editor of the Rock N Roll magazine "Crawdaddy," and the author of several books on Dylan's music. He says it's not the first time Dylan has taken a line from another writer.
July 8, 2003 - State officials have identified 259 schools that are falling below performance goals. The Minnesota Department of Education released the preliminary list of underachievers yesterday. And while it was bad news for many schools, some who were on the list last year found out they had been taken off. Ossie Brooks-James is the principal of Lyndale Community School in Minneapolis, and her school was one of those removed from the list. That is Ossie Brooks-James, the principal of Lyndale Community School in Minneapolis. To see a list of the schools on the list go to our web site, Minnesota Public Radio dot org.
July 9, 2003 - A Minneapolis library committee is scheduled to vote tonight (WEDNESDAY) on recommended cuts in the coming year's budget. Public reaction to plans to close several libraries prompted the board to remove that option from consideration. But several popular programs are on the block and hours at most of the system's libraries could be cut back significantly. Minnesota Public Radio's Art Hughes reports.
July 10, 2003 - The Minneapolis Public Library Board voted last night to balance its budget by drastic reductions in service rather than closing any branch libraries. 80 staff positions will be cut. There will reductions in staff and services. Kit hadley is the Executive Director of the Minneapolis Public Library system.
July 10, 2003 - A group of high school teachers will get a crash course this weekend in the rules of war. The teachers will gather at the University of Wisconsin River Falls to discuss a curriculum designed to teach students about the Geneva Conventions. The curriculum was designed by the International Committee of the Red Cross, and UW River Falls professor Ogden Rogers is among those working to adopt the curriculum for American social studies classrooms. Professor Rogers joins us now. That is U-W River Falls professor Ogden Rogers.
July 11, 2003 -
July 14, 2003 - MPR’s Stephanie Hemphill interviews Young-Nam Kim, artistic director of the Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute, which is sponsored by the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota. The first institute was held at the YMCA's Camp du Nord near Ely in 2002. Kim reminisces about the camp experience and the fantastic audience of campers, families, and children.
July 14, 2003 - For lots of young people, summer means time to go to camp. There are different kinds of camps - hockey camp, language camp, Girl Scout camp. An increasingly popular option for talented young instrumentalists is music camp. MPR's Stephanie Hemphill visits Madeline Island out on Lake Superior, where young people from around the Midwest spend four weeks playing classical music.