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The Best Of Our Knowledge
Mondays, 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
The Best of Our Knowledge is WAMC's long-running radio program focused on education, learning, and research.
The show is hosted and produced by Lucas Willard with additional production by Jody Cowan.
Twitter: @TBOOKnowledge
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On this episode of The Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll learn about the students and faculty at Stony Brook University who have created a resilience tool kit for student journalists.
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The spring 2024 semester was marked by student protests across the country. We’ll speak with an organizer at Bard College, where administration officials reached an agreement with Pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
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College textbooks can be a necessary part of coursework, but they’re often pricey. A new report examines automatic textbook billing practices.
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America is experiencing renewed efforts to ban books, pass so-called parents' rights legislation, and vilify teachers unions. We’ll speak with the authors of "The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual," about who and what is putting schools at the center of the culture war.
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New York education officials have unveiled a proposal that would transform the state’s graduation requirements.Lucas Willard speaks with state Commissioner of Education Dr. Betty Rosa.
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Research shows that college students are increasingly lonely. We’ll dive into a study that examines students’ mental health and how colleges and universities are fostering community and belonging.
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The rollout of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, has been rocky this year. We’ll dig into how the bumpy rollout could affect colleges and universities.
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Published in 1995, James W. Loewen’s “Lies My Teacher Told Me” has now been adapted into a graphic novel. We’ll speak with illustrator and National Book Award-winning comics artist Nate Powell.
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For five centuries, the world has benefitted from the artistic and scientific contributions from Leonardo da Vinci. A touring exhibit brings the Renaissance polymath’s ideas to life.
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Periodical cicadas this spring are singing in enormous numbers across the United States. It’s reunion hundreds of years in the making.