Forty-five states, including Arkansas have adopted Common Core career and college readiness K-12 education standards. But under the technology-enriched curriculum, cursive handwriting is optional. A St. Joseph third grade class in Fayetteville helps us to parse the implications.Ozarks At Large
Forty-five states, including Arkansas have adopted Common Core career and college readiness K-12 education standards. But under the technology-enriched curriculum, cursive handwriting is optional. A St. Joseph third grade class in Fayetteville helps us to parse the implications.Christina Thomas visits Timothy Nutt, head of special collections for the University of Arkansas library. Nutt says that the library's collections are directly affected by the death of letter writing.
Ahead on Ozarks: legislation passed this year in Little Rock regarding water standards has raised concern, some young runners are getting ready for this weekend’s Hogeye Marathon events and we meet some Energy Corps workers.
Roby Brock from our content partner Talk Business Arkansas talks with Arkansas’ film commissioner about recent film projects in the state and possible future developments.
The Arkansas legislature has passed a new law regulating mineral levels on certain small streams in the state. And as Jacqueline Froelich reports, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is not pleased.More information has been released regarding the size of the Pegasus Pipeline rupture in Mayflower. Arkansas' U.S. Senate contingent speaks out about aborted plans to quit Saturday delivery for the Postal Service. And the newest unemployment numbers for the area show slight improvement for February.
Ahead on Ozarks, researching a meteorite that exploded over Nevada and California last year. Plus, Roby Brock speaks with a state economist about the state of Arkansas' economy, and new classes aim to spread the wealth of knowledge that Downtown Bentonville has to offer.
Daniel Hintz of Downtown Bentonville wants to connect people thirsty for knowledge with the vast knowledge base available in the downtown Bentonville area, through classes in the Downtown Discoveries series.University of Arkansas doctoral student Robert Beauford was one of the first researchers to reach the site of a meteorite explosion in northern California last April. He says that the meteorite is one of the most primitive types of asteroid around.
Latest Edition of Ozarks at Large
Thursday, October 24, 2013
Ahead on this fundraising week edition of Ozarks, a look at the Ozark Ice Skating Club, analyzing the recent update to the Arkansas Poll, and lessons from 50 years ago and the Children's March in Birmingham, Ala..
Members of Arkansas' Congressional delegation react to President Obama's State of the Union Address earlier this week, as well as the President's pick to lead the Department of Defense. And, Fort Smith city and Sebastian County officials plan their next step inn moving forward with a regional aquatics center following public dissatisfaction with recently revised plans.
"My Funny Valentine" by Miles Davis
Senator Mark Pryor discusses the approaching deadline for across-the-board spending cuts, the future of the Violence Against Women Act and more.
Thanks to a new program, Arkansas Children's Hospital patients will receive Valentines whose messages were personalized by people from around the country. If you want to send a Valentine to a patient for free, visit the hospital's website here.
"Save Your Life For Me" by Mark Whitfield
Becca Martin Brown from Northwest Arkansas Newspapers still has ideas for Valentine's Day, even at the eleventh hour.
The four men from the barbershop quartet Melody Lane are delivering singing valentines today. They brought us one yesterday.
