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July 20, 2020

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No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top are just two of the recent attempts to "fix" our nation's schools. This week on KPR Presents, education historian Diane Ravitch talks about the REAL danger to America's education system...our attempts to reform it. Ravitch spoke at the University of Kansas as part of the Hall Center for the Humanities Lecture Series.

This week's Film Music Friday profiles James Horner, the Oscar-winning composer of Titanic, Apollo 13, Braveheart, The Rocketeer, The Mark of Zorro, Field…

Kansas Public Radio is pleased to partner with the Topeka-Shawnee County Public Library in this year's Big Read of that hard-boiled detective classic, The Maltese Falcon. Join us 8:00 Sunday evening for a preview of the book, insights about the life of author Dashiell Hammett, and a special broadcast of a radio play of The Maltese Falcon. For more information about TSCPL's Big Read programs, visit their website, www.tscpl.org.

This week on KPR Presents, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities brings his 50-state "Civility Tour" to Kansas. Jim Leach spent 30 years in Congress, and has taught politics at Princeton and Harvard Universities. Leach spoke at the University of Kansas Dole Institute of Politics on September 13, 2010. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith

It's the beginning of the sophomore year for the new leadership at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. This week on KPR Presents, we check in with KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and KSU President Kirk Schulz to find out how their first year went and what's ahead for this year. They'll also answer YOUR questions, submitted in advance by KPR listeners.

On this edition of Conversations, Larry Tye talks with host Dan Skinner about “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy.” Tye is an…

What song should play as you approach the batter's box? We're celebrating the return of Major League Baseball with our walk-up songs! It's Part One of a KPR Presents double-header.

Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts is one of the most popular syndicated columnists in the country. Pitts received this year's National Citation from the William Allen White Foundation at the University of Kansas School of Journalism. You can hear his acceptance speech and his criticism of fellow journalists on this week's KPR Presents, 8:00 Sunday evening on Kansas Public Radio. (This program is not available on demand.) Engineer(s): Chubby Smith