Standardized Testing, Teachers, Students, & Texas-sized Problems in Education w/ Garion Frankel

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by digging into the business and cultural factors that cause movie theater box offices to have their worst Memorial Day Weekend in a generation. Film critic Luis Mendez of the Mendez Movie Report returns to talk not just why films like Furiosa and Garfield failed to live up to the usual movie bonanza of the holiday, but also how business changes, streaming, and other factors play a huge role into what does and doesn't make it to the big screen these days. Plus, Luis and host Andrew talk about the head of Netflix giving an insightful interview to the New York Times, and discusses streaming, changing entertainment habits, and the future of movie theaters. Then, Luis updates the Oscars race now that the Cannes Film Festival has come and gone, and talks about the early dominance of Dune 2, and what is coming up later this year that might challenge the epic come awards season.All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.Luis's piece on the Oscars at Ordinary Times:https://ordinary-times.com/2024/05/28/97th-oscars-projections-the-post-cannes-outlook-for-the-best-picture-race/New York Times interview with Ted Sarandos of Netflix:https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/magazine/ted-sarandos-netflix-interview.html--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by once again pausing everything else and talking about mental health with Dr. Kathryn Gordon, clinical psychologist & author of The Suicidal Thoughts Workbook. Dr Katie once again not only discusses current issues like the election season, news cycle, and the ongoning debate over social media and mental health, but also gives examples of good mental health in tv, movies, and media, lays out in practical terms how to moderate and monitor your own mental health as well as those around you, and explains in real terms how taking care of our minds and emotions is essential to being health in all other areas of life. Plus, we talk the rising influence of content creators, changing times, how old tv shows and movies might have been deeper and better on mental health than we realized, and more.All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about news media and social media, and how we consume it. Host Andrew Donaldson uses his own experiences as a writer and talking head on news programs to talk about the changing ecosystem of news media, Pew data on local vs national news, how social media changes everything about our information intake, affirmation vs information, and some practical things everyone can do to take charge of their news feeds, social media timelines, and information rotation. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.The Pew data Andrew talks about can be found here:https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2024/05/07/americans-changing-relationship-with-local-news/The End on a Good Note story about Major can be found here:https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/indiana-dog-cried-endlessly-shelter-gets-good-news-video-reaches-thousands-facebook--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about President Joe Biden's trip to Atlanta to campaign and deliver the commence address at Morehouse College, which brought national media attention and ongoing narratives. We skip all that and turn to Donnel Suggs, Editor-in-Chief of the Atlanta Voice who covers the black community in Atlanta that President Biden was seeking to reach out and campaign to. Donnell explains the background of Morehouse College and why it carries such significance in the black community, the protests and narratives that came from the president's speech and campaign stops, takes us behind the scenes of being in the reporting pool for a presidential visit, and talks the differences between local coverage and national reporters who come just for the big story. Plus, we talk about the importance of local journalism during an election year, ask if the black community is getting talked to or talked at by the campaign, the importance of HBCUs in that community, and how to cover a growing place like Atlanta undergoing generational and rapid change.All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.Read Isiah Singleton's piece on President Biden at Morehouse here:Read Donnell Suggs coverage of Spelman College here. Read Laura Nwogu piece on Georgia Tech graduation here.--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking standardized testing in Texas with Garion Frankel. Writing in the Houston Chronicle, Garion talks about the STAAR testing and integration of automatic grading as a touch point to discuss how testing is dominating school policy, teaching methods, funding, and the power struggles inside the big business and high profile K-12 education system. Garion also talks post-COVID education, how losing things like the arts and vocational programs hurts students, the secondary-to-college pipeline, and how above all else the in-classroom teachers are getting a raw deal and pressure from all sides that prevent them from properly educating students. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.Read Gary's full piece on Texas STAAR testing here:https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/staar-ai-texas-test-19422246.php--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by having a little fun with history as Sarah Stook returns to Heard Tell to explain the how and why of her listing of all the Presidents of the United States sorted into Hogwarts Houses from the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Sarah explains the four houses and their characteristics, why certain chief executives wound up where they did, how not everyone turns out how folks think they will - in Harry Potter or in real life - and which US Presidents would be most representative of the beloved characters of the world wide phenomenon that is Harry Potter. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.Read Sarah's full piece sorting the presidents here:https://ordinary-times.com/2024/05/09/us-presidents-sorted-into-hogwarts-houses/--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by heading across the pond as Harris Griffiths returns to Heard Tell to talk the recent UK local elections, what the results may mean for the looming general elections, changing political coalitions, futures of PM Rishi Sunak and soon-to-be PM Keir Starmer, breaking down the current state of the major parties, and more. Harrison also uses his knowledge of American political history to use some comparisons between American and the UK to explain what is different, what is similar, and why everyone everywhere should be paying attention to the changes politically and culturally inside the UK like the post-Brexit realignments, rise of "sectarian" voting, economic issues, a general British weariness of politics, and how both hard times and good times can give rise to extremism minus strong leadership. All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by going beyond the headlines and into the halls of congress with Eric Garcia, the Washington bureau chief and senior Washington Correspondent at the Independent. Eric explains the current changes in congress that saw the foreign aid bills passed, the apparently sideline-ing of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the chaos caucus's constant threats of removing Speaker Johnson, how the looming elections are affecting the politics on Capitol Hill, generational change coming to the US Senate, simmering internal strife with the Democratic Party, and what the post-election congress might look like. Plus, we end on a good note with the story a immigrant who already had an incredible story of coming to America and battling cancer, and that was before he hit a billion dollar lottery prize.All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.Reporting referenced in this episode:Marjorie Taylor Greene’s exercise in vanity has failedDemocrats say they would save Republican speaker amid ouster attemptThe intra-Democratic feud on Israel will not stop anytime soon--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern our times by talking about the shocking case of dead 14 year old girl in Boone County, West Virginia, who was found “emaciated to a skeletal state” dead on her bathroom floor. While the mother has been charged, this horrible story once again highlights the issues of endangered children, the broken child protective system, a state government who either can’t or won’t allow transparency and accountability, and shocking lack of give a damn by a public who can’t seem to be bothered to force some change. Kelli Caseman of ThinkKidsWV returns to Heard Tell to talk about what needs to happen on the government level, policy ideas, the need for effective advocacy, and what the public can do about it.  All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.Reporting on this story by Amelia Ferrell Knisley for WV Watch referenced:Records show deceased Boone girl found emaciated was being homeschooledJustice: Child Protective Services didn’t know about Boone girl found dead in a ‘skeletal state’Deleted emails in foster care lawsuit could cost state $172K in sanctionsOther Reporting Referenced:W.Va. Department of Human Services releases statement after Boone girl's death911 Call Leads to Discovery of Girl, 14, in 'Emaciated, Skeletal State,' and Mom Is Arrested--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @Heard Tell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Your Heard Tell Show is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need by talking to our good friend, attorney, and Senior Editor at Ordinary-Times.com about the start of the New York trial of Donald Trump, how NOT to follow the trial, how celebrity trials are just different, understanding factors that might affect the vedict, seperating good coverage from bad coverage, importance of a jury trial, why even calling it a "hush money" trial already sets a narrative and perspective, and insight into how criminal proceedings go.All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.--------------------Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxQuestions, comments, concerns, ideas, or epistles? Email us [email protected] make sure to follow @HeardTell, like the program, comment with your thoughts, and share with others.Heard Tell SubStack Free to subscribe, comes right to your inboxSupport Heard Tell here: https://app.redcircle.com/shows/4b87f374-cace-44ea-960c-30f9bf37bcff/donationsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/heard-tell/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy