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Old Mole Variety Hour January 7, 2013

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier hosts this episode exploring education, environmental news, the monstrosity of capitalism, gun violence, and Idle No More. You can contact the moles at oldmolevarietyhour < at > gmail.com, follow us on Facebook, and find out more about the show on our main pag... Read more

Brian Jones on Real Education reform

Airs at: Mon, 01/07/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with educator, actor, and activist Brian Jones about how the boy billionaires try to narrow education to the standardized and quantifiable, instead of expanding it to meet the curiosity of each individual child. Jones will also speak on Real vs. Phony Edu... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 24th 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
           Tom Becker hosts today's Christmas Eve episode. We hear about the Chinese labor movement, the hypocrisy of Obama's mourning at Newtown, the Portland Solidarity Network, and the limits of consumer culture.   Bill Resnick interviews Eli Friedman about the Chin... Read more

School Massacres and Drones

Airs at: Mon, 12/24/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Alan Wieder comments on connection between the Sandy Hook shootings and drone-warfare. He considers the lamentations Americans and its leaders especially offer when certain American children are murdered in the context of drone-warfare and their otherwise disregard for chi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 17, 2012

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  This show considers schools, killing, killlings in schools, and civil rights and rock & roll. Hosted by Frann Michel, with music by Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and more. For information on our graphics, theme song, or name, see our main show page.  Frann Michel comments ... Read more

comments on young white men with guns

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel offers some comments on recent gun violence, with links here. Read more

Portland Teachers reject High-Stakes Testing: Gwen Sullivan of PAT

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Portland Association of Teachers president Gwen Sullivan about why Portland Public Schools turned down federal grant money. Although it might have provided funding for further professional development for reading teachers, the one-time grant c... Read more

UnFairTest: Monty Neill on Problems with High-Stakes Testing

Airs at: Mon, 12/17/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with Monty Neill of FairTest about how high-stakes standardized testing undermines real learning and discourages critical and creative thinking. They discuss more reliable, collaborative, and contextually-sensitive ways of evaluating teachers and stu... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour December 3rd 2012

Airs at: Tue, 12/04/2012 at 12:00am
Iven Hale hosts this Old Mole Variety Hour and we hear:     Bill Resnick talk with Chris Toensing about the future of Palestine Alan Weider comments on Obama's neoliberal "deformist" education policies Joe Clement interviews Kathi Weeks about her book on "The P... Read more

Obama's Deformist Education Policies

Airs at: Mon, 12/03/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Alan Weider offers this incisive commentary on the Obama Administration's "race to the top" education program and the way that it commodifies education. Read more