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Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced a goal of unifying the formula for determining high school graduation and drop-out rates across the United States. This has been a source of tension for years, with many localities accused of under-reporting drop-outs. Find out what's behind the move, and what we know about dropout rates in our region.
Ana Sol Gutierrez, Maryland State Delegates (D- Dist. 18, Montgomery County); former member of Montgomery County Board of Education
Chris Swanson, Director, Editorial Projects in Education Research Center
They're sitting in prisons around the country right now -- people who were wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. In Virginia, the state's Innocence Commission reviewed eleven cases of people who had been wrongly imprisoned. Join Kojo as we look at the commission's findings and how the legal community should proceed in evaluating its own mistakes.
Jon Gould, Professor and director of the Center for Justice, Law and Society at George Mason University and chair of the Innocence Commission for Virginia, and author of "Innocence Commission: Preventing Wrongful Convictions and Restoring the Criminal Justice System" (NYU Press).
It is legal for employers and landlords to discriminate against people based on their weight in 49 states. Find out how 'weight' and 'height' came to be included in Michigan's anti-discrimination law, and why advocates say that Fat Rights may be the next frontier in the civil rights battle.
Anna Kirkland, Professor of Women's Studies and Political Science, University of Michigan; and author of "Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood" (NYU Press)
Marilyn Wann, fat rights advocate; and author, "Fat?So!"
Byron Rushing, Representative, 9th District(Suffolk/Boston), Massachusetts House of Representatives
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