Host Frank Stasio speaks with Kenneth Dobyns, a teacher at West Johnston High School and one of the directors of the experimental Freshman Academy. The school-within-a-school idea hopes to lower the drop-out rate and foster a love of learning through smaller classes, more personal attention and group projects. Student Nick Perfetto weighs in as well. (12:00)
Archive for October, 2005
Freshman Academy
Friday, October 14th, 2005The Front Page
Thursday, October 13th, 2005Best of the South
Thursday, October 13th, 2005Best of the South: Host Frank Stasio speaks with Holly Lowman of Sugar Hill Records and Shannon Ravenel of Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill about their joint project, “The Best of the South” which features a short story anthology and a companion CD of songs from such luminaries as
Dolly Parton and Tim O’Brien. We’ll also hear an excerpt from a story by Lee Smith and a track from the CD. (14:00)
Wild Rose
Thursday, October 13th, 2005Wild Rose: In 1864, a white confederate female spy drowned off the coast of Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Rose O’Neal Greenhow was a Washington socialite who fed information to the South throughout the Civil War. Host Frank Stasio speaks with Ann Blackman, author of “Wild Rose: Rose O’Neale Greenhow, Civil War Spy” (Random House/2005). (20:00)
Kim Arrington
Thursday, October 13th, 2005Host Frank Stasio speaks with Kim Arrington, who uses poetry to spread her healing message to the African-American community in Durham. Her latest compilation, “The Lapis Dwellers,” is an introspective exploration of what it means to be both black and a woman in America. She joins us in the studio to talk about her poetry and her passion for Durham’s communities. (12:00)