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MARCH 2011 Musical Kids International is a program devoted to arts-based bilingual education for preschool aged children and was founded in 1999 by Yolanda Borras, a passionate devotee to musical education. Her program stresses learning through vocabulary, movement, art projects and books and songs directly extracted from the folklore traditions of different countries including Israel, Korea, China, Spain and France. Borras believes that incorporating traditional songs into the curriculum and ensuring that all teachers are native speakers, helps to keep the languages and cultures intact. Originally from the Dominican Republic (DR) Borras has lived in three continents and has studied at Columbia University Teachers College and John Hopkins University. At the age of seven she learned English at an American school in the DR and she credits her country's diverse Afro-European history in producing a richly unique culture. In addition to Musical Kids International, Borras also conducts special education/arts projects in the DR on a recurring basis. Tina Turner born Anna Mae Bullock, is the focus of today’s show in celebration of Women’s History Month. With unforgettable hits like “A Fool in Love,” “Proud Mary,” and “Nut Bush City Limits,” Tina Turner started her half a century long music career as an R&B vocalist for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue after convincing an initially skeptical Ike to let her sing with his band in St. Louis, Missouri at the age of eighteen. Award winning educator Maxine Nodel founded the Millennium Art Academy high school located in the Bronx, New York City in 2003, with the vision of preparing students for the world of college, work and school, using a foundation of humanity, and themes of visual art and intergeneration. Students participate in a variety of individual and group projects that stress critical thinking, problem solving, developmental writing and artistic construction. In this hour, Nodel asserts the importance of the Millennium Pearl Initiative, an intergenerational program, that pairs teenagers with elder mentors for learning through companionship and kinship. She further emphasizes that this type of experience can have positive side effects on teens because it gives them a chance to step out of their fast paced, technological caves to experience the delights of good old fashioned conversation and bonding with people many decades their senior. A product of the New York City public school system, Nodel remains a loyal advocate for children who rely on this system to give them a proper education. She gives a balanced and realistic view of the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act and how it impacts schools like hers; she speaks about her impressions of the pro charter schools film Waiting For Superman and clarifies the differences between charter schools and public schools. Kayce Freed Jennings is co-founder of The Documentary Group. Previously she was Vice President of PJ Productions, where she was also senior producer on documentaries including State of the Union and Out of Control: AIDS in Black America, a recipient of the George S. Peabody Award. Kayce began her early career in the early 1980s at ABC News in London. It was there that she first worked with Tom Yellin and Peter Jennings, the veteran newsman who became her husband in 1997. A producer for Nightline, she covered Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 1986, she relocated to ABC News' Atlanta Bureau, where she concentrated on the southern United States, the Caribbean, Latin America and national politics. Two years later, when World News Tonight with Peter Jennings launched its ground-breaking series, "The American Agenda," Kayce was one of its pioneering producers, focusing on social policy issues. The work received numerous awards. She moved back to New York City in 1989 and in 1993, re-joined Tom Yellin as a producer on his prime time news magazine Day One. When Day One ended its run, Kayce moved to 20/20, working with anchor Barbara Walters and correspondents Lynn Sherr, Deborah Roberts, Bob Brown, among others. She left ABC News to help found PJ Productions and then, in 2006, The Documentary Group. On today's program Kayce speaks with Angela McKenzie about the remarkable women in TV journalism who paved the way for her to have a successful and lengthy career in the industry; about some of her adventures and observations as an overseas journalist who witnessed some of recent history's milestones unfold; about the The Documentary Group's mission to produce engaging and edifying programs for a diverse audience and about her service to the not-for-profit organization Women In Need. |
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