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#1404: "A Hearing Impaired Middle School Music Teacher Becomes A Hero"

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Bob Barrett
Published August 17, 2017 at 2:00 AM EDT
Bob Barrett

Good teachers are hard to find…and a county school district in Florida has gone out of its way to make sure it kept one of theirs. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll tell you the story of Steve Box, a music teacher on the Florida panhandle who suffered from severe hearing loss…and what that district did to keep him in the classroom

And we’ll spend an academic minute finding out why hearing new music can feel so darn good.
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Bob Barrett
Bob has been a part of the WAMC family since 2001. He currently produces and hosts National Production's The Best Of Our Knowledge. Over the years, Bob has produced The Environment Show and The Health Show for National Productions and hosted weekend mornings on WAMC for a decade. In addition to producing TBOOK, he is currently a reporter and on air host at WUWF Public Radio at the University of West Florida in Pensacola.
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