Education

Author Bill Corbett

  Bill Corbett is the author of the award winning book Love, Limits & Lessons: A Parents Guide to Raising Cooperative Kids.  He discusses the struggle many parents have with getting their kids to do their homework and the temptation some parents have to do...

Mass Farm to School Project

Emily French, Massachusetts Farm to School Project’s western Massachusetts Farm to Cafeteria Director, and Chicopee Public Schools Director of Nutrition Services Joanne Lennon  talk about “Farm to School” organizations’ efforts since 2004 to...

Social Networking Policy

Michael Clark, Chair of the Longmeadow School Committee, and Marie Doyle, Longmeadow Superintendent of Schools, discuss the Social Networking Policy that’s proposed for Longmeadow schools. Longmeadow School...

College? Yes!

College? YES! is a city-wide effort to inspire and support higher education aspirations for Springfield student to attend and graduate from a college or university. College? YES! at Springfield Parent...

Ready! for Kindergarten

Sister Kathleen Popko, SP, President of Sisters of Providence; Maritza Smidy, Practice Manager, MercyCare-Forest Park and MercyCare Holyoke Providence Prenatal Center; and Sally Fuller, “Cherish Every Child” program at the Davis Foundation discuss  the...

Community-Based Learning Program

Dr. Alan Bloomgarden, Director of Community Engagement at the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts at Mount Holyoke College,  discusses “CBL,  a Community-Based Learning program. The CBL places students from the 5 Colleges in jobs or intern...

Simon Stevenson

Simon Stevenson visits the UMass Research & Education farm in South Deerfield to talk with Ruth Hazzarda and Amanda Brown about UMass’s Student Farming Enterprise. The year-long course covers crop planning in the spring semester, growing crops in summer semester,...

University of Massachusetts President

On January 13, 2011, Robert L. Caret was elected President of the five-campus, 68,000 -student University of Massachusetts system. President Caret sits down with Jim Madigan to discuss his plans for the UMass System, ranked as the 19th best university in the world in...

Charter Schools

Jim Madigan interviews Founder and Executive Director Rachel Romano from Veritas Prep, a charter school for grades 5-8 in Springfield;  and Bob Brick, Executive Director at Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School in Holyoke. Our guests discuss the work and planning...