Today's Takeaway | September 28, 2012

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Three Teachers' Most Worrisome — and Hopeful — Students | The Trouble with Depicting God | The Best High School Movies | Olivia Wilde on 'Half the Sky' | How the Jetsons Inspired Our Future

The Biggest Issues Facing Public Schools According to Teachers

After hearing from public education experts, scholars, and advocates, The Takeaway invited teachers from around the country to describe the students they worry about the most and the issues that are of the biggest concern to them.

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The Trouble with Depicting God

Depictions of the sacred are everywhere in modern American society, but we're not immune from the conflict that such depictions sometimes inspire. How does the fight over God's image play out in the United States? Paul Harvey, a professor of history at the University of Colorado, explains.

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The Best High School Movies

In honor of our weeklong series on education, we want to hear your favorite high-school-based movies. In the spirit of our series, we're going to stick with movies that take place at public schools.

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Takeaway Listeners Respond to Education Series

Takeaway listeners from Vancouver to New Jersey have been responding to this week's series on education with stories about their favorite educators, testimonials about their own schools, and observations about public education in the United States.

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Olivia Wilde Documents Women's Rise from Oppression to Opportunity

Actress Olivia Wilde talks about growing up with parents who worked as journalists in conflict zones and how that inspired her role in the new PBS series, "Half the Sky."

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How The Jetsons' Future Inspired Our Present

We may not have flying cars yet, but much of the future world envisioned in the television show "The Jetsons" has in fact come true. For the show's fiftieth anniversary, Janet Waldo, who played Judy Jetson, discusses how the show shaped our ideas of the future.

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