Ozarks At Large
The Arkansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial will be dedicated tomorrow in Little Rock.
New standardized public education testing will be tried in Arkansas public schools under the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. As Jacqueline Froelich reports, one million students across 18 states, including Arkansas, will participate in the “Next Generation Assessment” field tests.
Michael Tilley from The City Wire says the 188th Fighter Wing has recieved approval to spend to $12.5 million to build a facility that could help the unit become an ISR Center of Excellence.The university system's board voted yesterday to start offering online courses. And, the state departments of health and education partner on educating schools about the dangers of heat-related illnesses.
Ahead on this edition of Ozarks: a walk around the trails at Lake Fayetteville will take you past acres of charred land. We learn about the benefits of prescribed burns such as these. Plus not one, but two area towns are in the running to take over the March Madness bracket of the Greatest Southern Town. And, we climb a tree to visit the serene world of a children's treehouse, and get ready for Spring Break with options for movie lovers.
Trading on the popularity of the NCAA Tournament, the magazine Garden and Gun has its own bracket. This one pits southern towns against each other.
Wings, and other films, will be shown at area libraries during next week's Spring Break Vacation. Becca has a full list.
We go off into our own world with Josh Hart, a carpenter and owner of Natural State Treehouses, who builds play structures for people of all ages.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Ahead on Ozarks, a report on the approved usage of E-Notarization in Arkansas. And we speak to an editor, a reporter, and a journalism instructor about the future of newspapers and journalism.
“Singing in the Rain,” Survivor and more in our history capsule for August 23.
Becca Bacon Martin, editor of What's Up, says the week is only just starting, but there are plenty of things to do right now.
"Fever Machine' by The Tickle
Chancellor David Gearhart is our guest in the usual Monday collaboration with ozarksunbound.com and Christopher Spencer.
You can hear more from our conversation here.
"Mindjer Doce Mel" by Eneida Marta
Ozarks at Large and the staff at the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas have struck a partnership. The center has agreed to provide us recordings of certain iconic Arkansans sharing their life stories---stories we will share with you once a month. In turn, listeners will be guided to the center's collection of 750 audio interviews and a hundred video interviews.
To learn more visit pryorcenter.uark.edu
