October 17, 1992 - Historian and pop culture expert Karal Ann Marling talks with Minneapolis author M. D. Lake about his books, including A Gift of Murder. Lake’s mysteries revolve around murder and universities.
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October 26, 1992 - American educator and author Herbert Kohl discusses his book, From Archetype to Zeitgeist: Powerful Ideas for Powerful Thinking. Interview also includes commentary from Kohl about the politics of education.
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November 30, 1992 - All Things Considered’s Paula Schroeder interviews a local school board member about an appeal on whether or not to remove Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline from public school curriculum.
December 7, 1992 - MPR’s Leif Enger reports on travelling educators who have created a musical road school in Northern Minnesota. Enger interviews both educator and student alike on this newfound access in learning how to play an instrument.
December 15, 1992 - MPR’s Elizabeth Stawicki reports on Mound-Westonka High School’s decision to remove Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline from the school’s curriculum. Report includes various interviews on various perspectives of the action, from those who deem it as censorship, to those who see it as protecting teenage readers.
December 23, 1992 - Nothando Zulu, a renowned master storyteller and local educator, tells a story about the cat and the dog. This particular story talks about the principle of Imani, which is faith and the principle of cooperative economics.
January 14, 1993 - MPR’s John Biewen reports that Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (Corporation) has pulled MECC software program “Freedom!” video game after criticism from students and schools, finding it racially inappropriate. The program simulates the attempt by African slaves to escape from an 1830s southern plantation via the Underground Railroad.