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WGXC Afternoon Show: WGXC Afternoon Show: DW Gibson, Deborah Meier
May 21, 2012: 4pm - 6pm
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Hosted by Kieran Riley (Monday), Pastor Kim Singletary (1st, 3rd Tuesday), Randall Martin (2nd, 4th Tuesday), Tom DePietro and Selha Graham (Thursday), Lucy Bohnsack (1st Friday), and a rotating collection of hosts (Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday)
This Monday's Afternoon Show features conversations with DW Gibson and Deborah Meier.
DW Gibson is the producer of Not Working, a book-length oral history and film portrait of America's 21st-century unemployed. Gibson traveled across the U.S., interview individuals who lost their jobs because of the economic downturn over the last three years. The project was produced in dialogue with Stud Terkel's 1972 "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do". DW Gibson is also the Executive Director of the Writers OMI International Writers Residency. Tune in at 4:15 to hear our conversation with Gibson.
Deborah Meier has spent more than three decades working in public education as a teacher, principal, writer, advocate, and ranks among the most acclaimed leaders of the school reform movement in the U.S. Often considered the founder of the Small Schools Movement, she has been one of the most important voices in US educational thought for the past thirty five years. In 1987 Meier was the first educator to receive a McArthur “genius” Award. She is a senior scholar at NYU's Steinhardt School, the author of a number of books, and she currently maintains an online correspondence for Ed Week with Diane Ravitch, called Bridging Differences. Meier currently lives in Hillsdale, NY. Tune in at 5:15 to hear our conversation with Meier.

