What I Really Learned in School
May 2007
Reading, writing, and 'rithmetic? Come on! We travel from the early 1900's to a modern-day middle-school lunchroom to explore what lessons are really being taught in schools. Features commentaries from listeners, lots of conversation with actual kids, a new "Schoolhouse Rock"-inspired tune, and a new song from The Smarts on how the most important teachers can be under the bleachers.
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Title: You Gotta Go To School by Jeff Horwich, with The Smarts and Robin Johnson
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Title:Teacher of the Year by The Smarts, with Jeff Horwich
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The latest trend in education: Unschooling
Unschooling is an unstructured approach to education. Children don't have classes, text books or teachers. Instead they pick their own areas to study. They learn about the world by living in it. (05/18/2007)
Remember your high-school lunch room?
We hit the skyway food court at lunchtime to hear some adult memories and reflections. (05/18/2007)
Kid's lunch
We hit the lunch room with a seventh grader to find out how things work...and what they're learning. (05/18/2007)
Grade schoolers
Third and fourth-graders from Minneapolis prove surprisingly...job-focused (05/18/2007)
Middle school
Sixth, seventh, and eighth-graders from Minneapolis explain the most useful things they're getting out of school. (05/18/2007)
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