Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
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Tracing the roots of American music from its cultured past to artists playing it forward, folk musician, musicologist and host Nicholas Edward Williams takes listeners on a unique documentary-style podcast experience. Dive into the stories of centuries-old Traditional songs and migrants who carried their musical heritage here, and uncover the lives of pioneers and integral musicians who created and shaped styles such as Bluegrass, Ragtime, Jazz and Swing, Country, Gospel, Blues, Old-Time, an ...
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websynradio : a radio program hosted by Dominique Balaÿ. WebSYNradio is an independent radio program whose broadcast is streamed 24/7. WebSYNradio brings together propositions from artists or intellectuals that are for the most part well-established on the international scene.http://synradio.fr/ Parmi les artistes participants : 0 (Joël Merah, Stéphane Garin, Sylvain Chauveau), Adam Nankervis, Alan Dunn, Alfredo Costa Monteiro, Amanda Belantara, Anna O et Alain Descarmes, Anna Raimondo, Anne ...
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“The Citizen Stewart Show” is an independent, pull-no-punches podcast from The Branch about the perils and promise of education and democracy. Hosted by Chris “Citizen” Stewart, CEO of Brightbeam, a nonprofit national network of activists fighting for educational opportunity and justice for every child. And co-hosted by Ravi Gupta, former Obama staffer and former superintendent of a network of charter schools in the South. “The Citizen Stewart Show” shines light on the dark forces keeping ou ...
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Ep 131 | Restorative Justice (with Nicholas Bradford)
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58:00This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sat down with Nicholas Bradford for a conversation about restorative justice. Nicholas is the founder and executive director of the National Center for Restorative Justice and the author of A Real-World Guide to Restorative Justice in Schools: Practical Philosophy, Useful Tools, and True Stories. The Res…
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Raymond Blanc on Professor Nicholas Kurti
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27:39The chef Raymond Blanc nominates his mentor and friend, the physicist Professor Nicholas Kurti.Kurti was born in Hungary but fled to Oxford when Hitler came to power. Pushing the frontiers of low-temperature physics during his career, he went on to create‘molecular gastronomy’ in retirement. Raymond Blanc approached Kurti after a lecture the profes…
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Ep 130 | Pushing Student Achievement Forward (with Tommy Chang)
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56:13This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Dr. Tommy Chang, CEO of the New Teacher Center for a conversation about how we can keep pushing student achievement forward in these turbulent times. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]…
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Dervla Murphy, author of the classic Full Tilt
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27:38At the age of 10 Dervla Murphy was given an atlas and a bicycle, and so began an adventurous life. Her account of a journey to India became a classic called Full Tilt but she also went to Cuba, Ethiopia and the Andes where our guest first met her in a doss house. Hilary Bradt is the founder of the Bradt Travel Guides and is picking Dervla Murphy as…
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Ep 129 | Rewriting the Impact of Racial Trauma (with Dominic Lawson)
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1:01:36This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Dominic Lawson for a conversation about how we can rewrite the impact of racial trauma. Dominic Lawson is an award-winning producer who has made his mark in the mental health space. Dominic’s work has been recognized with numerous accolades. His podcast Black is America won a Webby Award i…
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Today, I’m sharing a conversation I had with one of today’s most eclectic roots musicians, Buffalo Nichols. Since his earliest infatuations with guitar, Carl, who goes by the name Buffalo Nichols has asked himself the same question: How can I bring the blues of the past into the future? A student of African traditions and its roots in the blues, as…
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We don't even know if Ned Ludd was real, but perhaps that was the point. "You could say he was everyone and no one - and that's what made him so terrifying for the authorities." Leader of the Luddites, who often signed letters and proclamations Ned Ludd, he is shown in one engraving wearing mismatched shoes and a blue polka dot dress, suggesting a …
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his week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the nuances of merit pay for teachers. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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Richey Edwards of The Manic Street Preachers
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27:40Richey was, beautiful says Cummins, a natural icon and a gift to photograph. He also believes his writing has been overshadowed by the fact of his disappearance in 1995. "I think nobody has looked beyond that for quite a long time.” Manic Street Preachers biographer, Simon Price, also knew Richey Edwards and says he was "the most intelligent rock s…
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Ep 127 | The Rising Resistance in Education
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49:31This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the rising resistance to the President’s crusade against diversity in education. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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ANNOUNCEMENT // American Songcatcher's Future
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2:04Over the last 5 years, we have had the privilege of bringing you stories of Pioneering musicians such as Bill Monroe, Sam Cooke, Johnny Cash, Lead Belly, Dolly Parton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie and so many more. However, a recently shift was forced upon the American Songcatcher program. Our distributor, Spotify for Podcasters…
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Biography show in which the guest picks someone they admire. Benny Hill is a thorny choice but playwright Jonathan Maitland is determined that - despite accusations of sexism and racism later in his career - Britain's most successful comedian deserves a second look. Benny was fired by Thames TV in 1989. "The show was past its sell-by date," was the…
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Playlist de Philippe Poirier pour webSYNradio avec trois de ses compositions entremêlés des sons de David Garland, Christopher Hobbs, Carlos Gardel, Philip Glass, Elvis Presley, Isidore Isou, Eric Satie, kristin Oppenheim, Sonic Youth, David Toop, Morton Feldman, Brooks Williams, Dariush Dolat-Shahi, Marcel Broodthaers. Les morceaux choisis (pas to…
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Ep 126 | Why Dual Language Programs Work (with Conor Williams)
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55:30This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Conor Williams for a conversation about why dual language programs are working for ESL families, and why they are under political pressure. Conor Williams is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, and an expert on urban education reform, English learner students, children of immigrants…
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Maggi Hambling picks muse and lover Henrietta Moraes
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27:35“Henrietta's eyes looked into one's soul at the same time exposing her own. She posed for me most Mondays for the last seven months until two days before she died.” In a raw and very funny opener to the new series of Great Lives, painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling chooses someone she knew extremely well - her lover Henrietta Moraes. Born in India,…
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Ep 125 | Solving Education for America’s Black Children (with Emory Edwards)
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57:29This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Emory Edwards to discuss possible pathways to solving education for America’s black children. Emory Edwards is the Vice President of Outreach at Ed Choice. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171By The Branch
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The legendary opera star Maria Callas was lauded for her magnetic stage presence and extraordinary vocal range. Born in New York in 1923 to Greek immigrant parents, she moved with her mother and sister to Greece aged 13. In 1939 she attended the Athens Conservatoire where she embarked on a rigorous vocal training in the Italian "bel canto" traditio…
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Programme inédit de EMMANUEL MIEVILLE pour webSYNradio : DES AIRS URBAINS - City mix of analog machines. Ce mix inédit regroupe une sélection de pièces acousmatiques et concrètes, réalisées et éditées sous le label français Baskaru, et des compositions de musique concrète et de field recordings, capturées dans des environnements urbains (au Portuga…
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Ep 124 | Social and Emotional Learning (with Dr. Michael Strambler)
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53:13This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Michael Strambler for a conversation about Social and Emotional Learning. Dr. Michael Strambler is a clinical psychologist and directs Child Wellbeing and Education Research at The Consultation Center at Yale. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an…
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Ep 123 | A Special Educational Status for Black Students (with Shaka Mitchell)
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56:11This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Shaka Mitchell for a conversation about possible pathways to a special educational status for black students. Shaka Mitchell serves as a Senior Fellow for the American Federation for Children. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at citizen…
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Born in Illinois in 1941, Dana Meadows studied Chemistry and Molecular Biology, before turning her back on a post doc position at Harvard, to pursue environmentalism. She joined her husband Dennis Meadows as part of the team working on Professor Jay Forester's World3 computer model of the world economy at MIT and wrote the report on the results of …
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Ep 122 | Anti Exclusionary Program Design (with Toni Barton)
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51:46This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Toni Barton to discuss the lessons from her book Six Principles for Building a Truly Inclusive School. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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Programme inédit de GUILLAUME CONTRÉ pour webSYNradio : PETITE MACHINE DE NUIT. Différences, répétitions, rouages, acouphènes et tautologies. Des sons hétéroclites, de la noble synthèse analogique au vulgaire bruit de micro, enregistrés à des moments divers pour des raisons variables, sont coupés, collés, montés, bouclés, superposés, filtrés, mixés…
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Ep 121 | An Autonomous Education for Black Children (with Kenya Bradshaw)
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1:04:03This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Kenya Bradshaw for a conversation about reconstructing a quality education system for black children in America. Kenya Bradshaw is the CEO at Reconstruction, a curriculum technology company focused on developing and teaching K-12 supplemental curriculum that situates Black people, Black cu…
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Ep 120 | What Can Schools Do Differently?
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1:04:40This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris is joined by a pair of education innovators to discuss the question - What can schools do differently? Our guests today: Justin Dent, Executive Director of Outschool.org Amy Anderson, Executive Director of Reschool Colorado We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an …
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Podcast de Philippe Rahm pour webSYNradio : LA DISSOCIATION DU REEL - Gerard Grisey, Partiels - Tristan Murail, Desintegration - Giacinto Scelsi, Ohoi - Anton Webern, Cinq pièces Op. 10 - Iannis Xenakis, Metastasis - György Ligeti, Atmosphères - Hugues Dufourt, Le Déluge - http://synradio.fr/philippe-rahm-2/…
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Ep 119 | The Voices Missing from the National Education Debate
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1:09:03This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris is joined by Jay Artis-Wright, Charles Cole, and Sharif El-Mekki for a conversation about the voices missing from the national education debate - those of the black community. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]…
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Ep 118 | Civics & Security: The Democracy Connection
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43:03This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed why the decline of civics education is a national security threat. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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Programme inédit de lectures à l'occasion de l'anniversaire de la catastrophe de Fukushima : cette année, SYNradio s'associe au projet Fukushima Open Sounds en rendant hommage aux Éditions de Fukushima qui autour de la bonne volonté de quelques militants travaillent à garder un focus sur cette catastrophe toujours en cours.Les premiers lecteurs: Ka…
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Ep 117 | We Need a Boring Revolution in Education
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52:36This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed… ‘We’re the Outliers’: Ashley Rogers Berner on Public Funding for Private Schools (The 74, 2/27/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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George Harrison was a musician, singer and songwriter who became one of the most famous people in the world as one quarter of the Beatles. That alone would merit a place in the Great Lives pantheon, but his work in the decades after the band broke up indicates a man of diverse and arguably underestimated talents. Erupting onto the pop music scene i…
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John Gay, eighteenth-century satirist and author of The Beggar's Opera, is nominated by the writer Jake Arnott - whose novels, including The Long Firm and He Kills Coppers, are also set in London's criminal underworld. Editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop, is the presenter, and Dr Rebecca Bullard of the University of Oxford is on hand to help uncover …
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed Barney the Dinosaur, and Generation Barney, the podcast from NPR. Also check out... Kate with Barney in the 90s! And some additional reading The Educational Approach of Barney and Friends (PBS) Barney: 5 Best Life Lessons From The Children's Show (& 5 Worst) (ScreenRant 12/21/20) Impac…
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One dubbed "the biggest, loudest and indisputably the rudest mouth on the battleground", Florynce Kennedy was a force to be reckoned with. She was a lawyer, a vocal figure in the American civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and '70s, and a champion of numerous other causes besides; from legalising abortion to campaigning for sex-worker…
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Ep 115 | Gutting the Department of Education
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44:12This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed the president’s gutting of the Department of Education. Is Trump Gutting Education Research a New Beginning or Just ‘Slashing & Burning’? (The 74, 2/11/25) The Data Defense: Taking Stock of How IES Funding Fuels America’s Global Competitiveness and National Security (Linkedin, 2/13/25)…
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A N Wilson selects Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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27:47"I've chosen him because I think he was possibly the most interesting human being who has ever lived". A N Wilson Born in the middle of the 18th century in Frankfurt, Goethe went on to become the pre-eminent figure in German literature. As well as writing plays and poetry (including Faust) he was a statesman, a scientist, an artist and a critic. Qu…
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Ep 114 | Shut Down the Department of Education?
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46:44This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed... Betsy DeVos: Shut Down the Department of Education (The Free Press, 2/6/25) At Least 10 Student Loan And Federal Aid Programs Run By The Department Of Education May Be Cut (Forbes, 2/10/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at cit…
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"The Queen Boadicea, standing loftily charioted, Brandishing in her hand a dart and rolling glances lioness-like, Yell'd and shriek'd between her daughters in her fierce volubility": so wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the 19th Century, celebrating the story of an ancient English warrior queen who sparked a brutal and bloody rebellion against Roman r…
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Ep 113 | NAEP: The National Assessment of Educational Progress (with Tim Daly)
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53:19This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Tim Daly of Ed Navigator for a conversation about NAEP scores. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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Eugene Victor Debs, born 1855 in Indiana USA, was a railway worker, a trade unionist and a five time candidate for the presidency. He was imprisoned during the First World War for sedition. He'd urged resistance to the draft; President Woodrow Wilson called him a traitor to the nation, but Debs still ran for the presidency in 1920. His sentence was…
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Podcast de l'émission de Anne Gillot sur RTS Musique d'Avenir du 26 janvier 2025 : MEANWHILE IN FUKUSHIMA. Anne Gillot invite le projet Fukushima Open sounds dans son émission Musique d’avenir diffusée tous les dimanche soir sur RTS (Radio Television suisse). En écoute les pièces de Ludovic Bernhardt / Ilhan Blanco, Joachim Montessuis, Bérangère Ma…
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed what Wicked can teach us about the importance of Core Knowledge. My Wicked Prior Knowledge (Comrade Chris, 11/30/24) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected]…
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"Make the boy interested in natural history," wrote Captain Scott from his tent in the Antarctic. He was talking about his son, three year old Peter Scott, whom he never saw again and who went on to found the Wildfowl and Wetland Trust and campaign against the hunting of whales. The son also designed the panda logo for the Wold Wide Fund for Nature…
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Programme de PHILIPPE PETIT pour webSYNradio : Les 5 ans de Modulisme. Bienvenue dans notre nouveau programme qui célèbre les 5 ans de la plateforme Modulisme. On démarre par une bande son imaginaire de « Dementia » de John Parker, composée par Philippe Petit qui dirige cette plate-forme. Suivent les premiers volumes de la série Acoustronique, qui …
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Kate discussed how sexist attitudes change girls' trajectories. Barefoot and Pregnant (Comrade Chris, 1/8/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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Margot Fonteyn was an icon: a ballerina who helped build and indeed embodied the traditional image of a dancer, just as the artform was finding its feet on the British cultural scene. From humble beginnings she became an international star, enjoying a dazzling career with the Royal Ballet, a glamorous social life as a diplomat’s wife, and an electr…
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This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris and Ravi discussed… College for Some (Comrade Chris, 1/4/25) We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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Dr Hannah Critchlow picks Professor Colin Blakemore
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27:59Professor Colin Blakemore was a famous communicator of science, the youngest ever Reith lecturer on the BBC. He was also targeted by members of the animal rights movement, which sent bombs and letters lined with razor blades to his home address. Born in 1944 and brought up in Coventry, Colin Blakemore was committed to brain research and the connect…
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Ep 109 | Universal School Choice Programs (with Liz Cohen)
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58:31This week on The Citizen Stewart Show, Chris sits down with Future Ed policy director Liz Cohen for a conversation about universal school choice programs. We’d love to hear from you! Leave us a voicemail at (321) 213-9171 Or send us an email at [email protected] The Branch
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Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau was an oceanographer, filmmaker and explorer who made the seas a subject of fascination for millions. During his time in the French Navy, Cousteau co-invented the Aqua-Lung: the first self-contained kit that allowed a diver to breathe underwater. This and his fascination with capturing images of the subaquatic world pa…
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