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David L. Kirp

David L. Kirp, professor of public policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship With Community (Princeton).David L. Kirp's dissection of American universities, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education, has just been published by Harvard University Press. His latest book, The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics, will be published in August.

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  • Racists & Robber Barons

    July 12, 2007 Subscribe

    Rather than build a unified culture in a diverse society, the conservative Gang of Five that now dominates the Supreme Court is polarizing the country.

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    November 2, 2005 Subscribe

    San Francisco recently launched universal preschool, designed to make young participants higher earners and better citizens when they reach adulthood. If successful, San Francisco's initiative could make preschool as commonplace as kindergarten.

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 5/12/08
This week: Political shifts in the U.K.; Roberto Lovato and Jeanvieve Williams talk about "Juan Crow," a matrix of anti-immigration laws; and Ross Tuttle and Scott Horton look at the chaos in Guantanamo, as the first detainees head to trial. (13mb mp3)

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