Ozarks At Large

Here is our out-of-this-world list of material that made up our space montage this morning. If you correctly identified them all, buy yourself a cold glass of Tang.

1. "Major Tom," as performed by David Bowie
2. Neil Armstrong lands on the moon.
3. Charlton Heston just before his space ship crashes into future earth. Spoiler alert: there are APES. This is the opening scene from the original Planet of the Apes
4. A commercial for Tang
5. HAL takes over in 2001: A Space Odyssey
6. The Shocking Blue with their biggest hit, "Venus"
7. A piece of the trailer for the disaster movie Armageddon. That's nativa Arkansan Billy Bob Thornton explaining "It's a meteor shower."
8. Pluto, the dog, barking in his 1952 cartoon, "Pluto's Party."
9. The worst bit of dialogue ever in a movie ("Future events such as these will affect you in the future.") from Plan 9 From Outer Space"
10. Holst's Mars from "The Planets"

A report released yesterday by Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families shows that Arkansas schools rely heavily on out of school suspensions, with many districts punishing minorities at a higher rate than white students, thus limiting their learning opportunities. Ozarks at Large's Christina Thomas spoke with Jerri Derlikowski, Director of Education Policy for AACF and author of the report.

A bill to establish an independent commission to approve public enrollment charter schools in Arkansas has stalled. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe has asked the state education department to strike an alternative. We also look at what’s trending nationally.

Becca Martin Brown from NWA Newspapers says tonight's entertainment suggestions include auditions for “Goodbye Charlie” at Rogers Little Theater, and the band Spoken returns to Fayetteville.