From Across the Yard: Education and Four Lokos

I. Schools of Thought: Public Education Reform in 2010 (Part Two): Abigail Lind looks at the history of public schools in the United States in the second part of our series Schools of Thought.

II. Quintessential College: Four Loko has been banned at Ramapo College after 16 hospitalizations for alcohol poisoning. Cornell has banned alcohol at parties with freshman attendees. Daniel Gross weighs in on the issue of underage college drinking.

II. Week in Review: Chilean miners get rescued, Google invests in a offshore wind energy project called the Atlantic Wind Connection. By Allan Bradley.

Host: Abigail Lind

From Across the Yard: Facebook, Superman, Mice

I. Opinion on Opinion: Daniel Gross explores the critic and buzz, in honor of The Social Network.

II. Schools of Thought: Public Education Reform in 2010 (Part 1): Waiting for Superman drew attention to the abysmal test scores of American public school students. Abigail Lind finds out more.

III. MICE: The first ever Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo, or MICE, hosted by the Boston Comics Roundtable took place in late September. Natalie Panno went to check it out and speak to some of its participants.

IV. Week in Review: Foreclosure, Afghanistan, the race for Massachusetts governor, by Allan Bradley.

Host: Natalie Panno