[IAEP] "don't need no educ; leave those kids alone" filmmaker interviewed live, in 2hrs!

[Holt]

Discussing this autumn's surprise blockbuster film "Race to Nowhere" on 
teaching-to-anything-but-the-test:

http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/12/education-race-nowhere

That's NPR's national radio call-in show, at 11AM EST today -- do 
call-in if you can (*800-423-8255*) or comment on blog above!  Radio 
show inspired by last week's front-page NY Times article here:

     Parents Embrace Documentary on Pressures of School
http://nytimes.com/2010/12/09/education/09nowhere.html

Radio show guests are:
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Vicki Abeles <http://www.racetonowhere.com/film/team>*, director of the 
new education documentary "Race to Nowhere." 
<http://www.racetonowhere.com/> She's an attorney, a mother of three, 
and first-time filmmaker. She made the film 'Race to Nowhere' after her 
own 13-year-old daughter was treated for school-induced stress.*

Denise Pope <http://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/dpope>*, senior lecturer at 
the Stanford University School of Education. She's author of /Doing 
School: How we are creating a generation of stressed out, materialistic, 
and mis-educated students/. She's also co-founder of Challenge Success, 
a national research project to reduce unhealthy pressure on youth
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