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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Minnesota Public Radio Stories

  • Dropout problem growing
    Recent reports indicate that the nation's high school graduation rate has dropped for the second straight year, and the dropout rate continues to rise. The problem affects black and Latino students at particularly high rates. What can be done to solve America's dropout crisis?9:06 a.m.
    Guests
    Christopher Swanson: Vice president of research at Editorial Projects in Education
    RiShawn Biddle: Editor of Dropout Nation, a web site that covers American education reform.
    Steve Barr: Founder and chair emeritus of Green Dot, which operates 17 charter schools in Los Angeles.
    More from MPR
    A critical look at public education (09/29/2010)
    Target directs $500 million towards education (09/24/2010)
    Minneapolis schools to dropouts: 'We want you back' (09/09/2010)
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    About Christopher Swanson
    Dropout Nation
    Green Dot Schools
  • Young start-up success has its downsides
    With the premiere of "The Social Network," American movie audiences will have a glimpse, albeit fictional, into the lightening-fast rise of one of the youngest and richest CEOs in America: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. When a young entrepreneur experiences Zuckerberg's kind of success, he or she must walk the line between great risk and great reward, while learning how to navigate in the spotlight.10:06 a.m.
    Guests
    Donna Fenn: Contributing editor at Inc. magazine and author of "Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business and 8 Ways You Can Profit From Their Success."
    Jose Antonio Vargas: Pulitzer-prize winning journalist whose profile of Mark Zuckerberg ran in the September 20, 2010 issue of The New Yorker.
    More from MPR
    Politics and social media (08/13/2010)
    Tough times for entrepreneurs (07/29/2009)
    Resources
    About Donna Fenn
    About Jose Vargas
    "The face of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg opens up" (The New Yorker)
  • Immutable Wall Street
    The latest Oliver Stone film Wall Street revisits the characters who claimed "greed is good" in a post bank-failure era. More than 20 years after the original "Wall Street" premiered, has culture on Wall Street changed or does it retain its pre-recession vices?10:45 a.m.
    Guests
    Kate Jennings: Novelist and essayist. She is the author of "Moral Hazard" and "Stanley and Sophie," who worked on Wall Street from 1993 to 2000 as a speech writer.
    Resources
    About Kate Jennings

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