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posted on July 25, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Host Paul Yeager and Jeneane Beck of Iowa Public Radio discuss Barack Obama's recent visit to Cedar Rapids, local government response to Iowa flood recovery, and an upcoming Board of Education study on school consolidation.
Tags: Barack Obama Campaign 2008 politics democrats Cedar Rapids Iowa-storms-08 education
posted on June 6, 2008 at 2:30 PM

Iowa needs workers, and immigrants want to fill that need. This episode examines the ways the state can encourage legal methods of importing the estimated 300,000 people needed to continue business as usual.
Tags: education Postville raid agriculture floods/flooding immigration Hispanic workers farmers
posted on March 17, 2008 at 2:42 PM

Iowa community college officials claim nearly 90 percent of their graduates stay in the state. The schools help expand local economies and help elevate the fortunes of their graduates. We visit Muscatine Community College to see their setup and talk with students and faculty in the community college system.
Tags: education educators college students Muscatine
posted on March 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM
Rob Denson, President of Des Moines Area Community College, talks about how community colleges respond to the workforce needs of area businesses and students looking to begin their post-secondary education. Bob Mundt, President of the Council Bluffs Area Chamber of Commerce emphasizes the successful role of community colleges to train the future workforce.
Tags: education educators college students adult literacy job market economy Iowa legislature manufacturing Council Bluffs
posted on February 21, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Kay Henderson of Radio Iowa discusses the legislature's action on a bill to ban smoking in public places with host Paul Yeager.
Tags: news analysis politics Iowa legislature smoking education educators taxes
posted on February 12, 2008 at 9:56 AM

Pulitzer winning Miami Heard columnist Leonard Pitt Jr. addresses a number of topics ranging from the Obama surge to life in the U.S. since 9-11.
Tags: campaign 2008 politics civil rights African Americans Democrats Barack Obama 9/11 activism Hillary Clinton education charter schools students gays and lesbians
posted on February 11, 2008 at 8:54 AM
Governor Chet Culver's endorsement of Barack Obama, education spending and concerns with the Iowa economy are topics covered by Dave Pitt of Associated Press.
Tags: Iowa legislature politics taxes news analysis budget economy education educators campaign 2008 governor Barack Obama Democrats caucuses
posted on February 1, 2008 at 3:59 PM

The use of the Internet and all the devices it spawned as well as some stand alone gadgets has been a boon to modern education. But the devices are not solely employed to tap that knowledge. As filmmaker Woody Allen once said, "I believe in the power of distraction." Today's student population nearly embraces the power of distraction.
Tags: Internet technology education educators college students
posted on February 1, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Michael Bugeja from Iowa State University and Jan Bartlett from the University of Northern Iowa discuss the issues that multitasking brings to today's world.
Tags: technology Internet communication education college
posted on January 22, 2008 at 11:42 AM
David Pitt of the Associated Press discusses issues facing the first week of the Iowa legislative session with host Todd Mundt, including funding for community colleges and the bottle deposit program.
Tags: politics Iowa legislature recycling education budget economy college taxes news analysis
posted on January 15, 2008 at 11:03 AM

David Miles, president of the Iowa Board of Regents and board member of the Iowa College Student Aid Commission, and Jim Sumner, senior counselor, Office of Admissions and Financial Aid for Grinnell College discuss the financial issues facing Iowa's college students.
Tags: education students debt college
posted on January 15, 2008 at 11:01 AM

One Iowa community is developing a plan to help pay for student's tuition. It's called the Davenport Promise. Supporters of the plan believe it also offers the city a tool to reverse the out-migration of young families to the suburbs. Longer term it could provide Davenport with a better educated workforce.
Tags: education students debt Davenport college
posted on January 7, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Here now to give us her take on the news that lingers after all the candidates have boarded their planes or buses is Jeneane Beck of “Iowa Public Radio” news.
Tags: politics caucuses campaign 2008 news analysis Republicans Democrats Barack Obama Mike Huckabee civil rights education
posted on November 22, 2007 at 1:35 PM
Ann Murr is the director of Drake University’s Adult Literacy Center, one of a number of facilities in the state that help people learn to read. Among the others are Centers in each of Iowa’s community colleges. Alex Hilson is a student at the Drake Center.
Tags: adult literacy education
posted on November 21, 2007 at 1:35 PM

Carey Hamilton at 42 years old is learning to read. It's the second hardest thing he's ever done. The hardest thing was to admit that he couldn't read. But Carey is not alone according to a 1996 estimate where Portland State University concluded that 13% of all adult Iowans were illiterate.
Tags: adult literacy education
posted on November 10, 2007 at 4:28 PM

Ideally located in Iowa's windy northwest, Iowa Lakes Community College in Estherville, is helping the growing workforce needs of the wind energy industry. The college developed one of the first training programs of its kind in the nation. Meeting the needs of students, enrollment in the Wind Energy and Turbine Technology two-year degree program, has grown rapidly.
Tags: renewable energy wind turbines education
posted on October 29, 2007 at 6:01 PM
Jeaneane Beck discusses student debt, arming campus security, campus naming rights and the latest polls from caucus goers in Iowa with David Yepsen.
Tags: news analysis education
posted on October 9, 2007 at 12:00 AM
David Hensley, executive director of the Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center at the University of Iowa, and Maureen Collins-Williams, director of the University of Northern Iowa's regional business center/SBDC discuss Iowa's growing entrepreneurial culture with Todd Mundt.
Tags: business economics education
posted on October 8, 2007 at 12:00 AM

In this web-exclusive extended interview, John Pappajohn discusses his entrepreneurial beginnings, his successes, and his hopes for the future of small business in Iowa.
Tags: business economy education web exclusive
posted on October 5, 2007 at 3:08 PM

With a personal fortune estimated at a half a billion dollars, he is giving much of it away. John Pappajohn is sharing his vision by financing five entrepreneurial education centers in the state. Since their inception a decade ago, the centers have produced nearly three thousand business startups in Iowa.
Tags: education economy business
posted on December 11, 2006 at 12:00 AM

Find out how technology is impacting the way students learn.
Tags: technology education students educators college Internet