Source Form #26

Title:  Out Takes:  Will the stimulus package stimulate education reform?

 

http://www.thetakeaway.org/stories/2009/feb/24/will-simulus-package-stimulate-education-reform/

 

Summary:  John Hockenberry interviews Bob Compton, a venture capitalist and director of the documentary Two Million Minutes, about how to interpret what Secretary Duncan is going to do with the $100 billion dollars of stimulus money.

 

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Category:  This is a journalistic source.

 

What is it?  This is a radio broadcast interview of an expert on education—Bob Compton.

 

Publication Information:  The broadcast is downloadable at thetakeaway.org website.  The broadcast was done on February 24, 2009.

 

Author:  John Hockenberry, co-host of the take away show with 15 years of experience in broadcast and television.

 

Location: http://www.thetakeaway.org/stories/2009/feb/24/will-simulus-package-stimulate-education-reform/

 

Accessed:  March 8, 2009

 

Support:  The interviewer brings in clips of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and asks Compton to analyze what he is saying and what it could mean for education.  Compton has done some extensive studies with the K-12 education system, which he uses to be critical of what Duncan is portraying as the plan of action.  Other than the clips the interview is a one-on-one interview with no sources.

 

Audience and Agenda:  This broadcast is national and a part of the Public Radio International (PRI) organization.  There are 29 million listeners who tune in to get the updates of news that is important to them.  The funding is through partnerships with BBC, independent-based and station-based producers.  The station’s location is Minneapolis.  The audience would be people who listen to NPR and want a little variety in their talk radio.  This station provides another outlet and another voice to portray what is going on in the nationally and internationally in the news.

 

Usefulness:  Bob Compton breaks down a lot things wrong with everything Duncan is trying to do.  The idea of this interview is to provide a first-hand interpretation of how things are going to stay at a state level of functioning and how such a procedure will keep us locked into a 20^th century makeup of education.  The negative interpretation of Duncan, by Compton, is important in analyzing what opposing people are thinking as the money is (at this point) still not yet being spent.  The assertions by Compton is that the money will be spent too fast because that is what it is designed to do.  Through to quick a spending, dysfunction will take its course full throttle because money is being thrown into a state level system that is broken to begin with.  The information here is a concrete step in determining what kind of expectations people are holding about the incoming stimulus money.  From an expert on education, the information provides a good structure of how to go about relating information on both sides of the incoming “reforms”—or lack thereof.

 

Works Cited:  Although previous to the radio interview with Arne Duncan on NPR, the interview compliments what came about once the money was released, which is important to consider.

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/03/education-secretary-arne-duncan/

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