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The Department of Education has announced new guidelines for "No Child Left Behind", the program aimed at closing achievement gaps in American public schools. We'll talk about the effectiveness of the current program and what the new rules may mean for states.
David Shreve, National Conference of State Legislatures
Doug Mesecar, Department of Education, Chief of Staff for Policy
Jack Jennings, Center on Education Policy
Jane Austen is an 18th century novelist whose work inspires shelves of scholarly literary criticism as well as passionate devotion by ordinary readers. Diane and her guest discuss why the world loves Jane Austen.
Joan Klingel Ray, professor of English at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and president of the Jane Austen Society of North America.