Here & Now; 450
- Series
- Here & Now
- Episode
- 450
- Contributing Organization
- PBS Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/29-36547kxw
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Here and Now, No Child Left Behind is the federal public school assessment program. Schools that fall below minimum performance standards are subject to a combination of incentives and sanctions. This week ninety-two Wisconsin schools landed on the insufficient progress list. Fifty-eight of those schools are in the Milwaukee District. Now the entire district has been labled as a 'district in need of improvement.' Milwaukee's Kosciuszko Middle School made the list for the fourth straight year and faces closure under the No-Child-rules. Milwaukeean James Cameron died. In 1930 Cameron survived a lynch mob in Marion, Indiana. He spent the next seventy-six years telling his story. Cameron is the only person known to have survived a lynching. His tireless effort to call attention to unchecked hate crimes resulted in the U.S. Senate formally apologizing to Cameron and others for never having outlawed lynching. In 1988 he founded America's Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. James Cameron in his own words from a Wisconsin Public Television documentary called 'A Lynching in Marion.' In this clip, Cameron tells of the lynch mob that came to hang him on a dark night in 1930. Memorial services for James Cameron are scheduled for earlier in the day Monday. Here to tell us about those services as well as the lasting legacy of the Black Holocaust Museum is the museum's Director. (With full-screen image of the museum), On Monday, a federal jury found former Department of Administration official, Georgia Thompson -guilty- of two felonies for her part in the state travel contract scandal. A send-off ceremony took place this morning in Oshkosh for 169 Wisconsin National Guard members mobilized earlier this week. Emerald Ash Beetle, Fred VO with b-roll of beetle and trees that have been affected by them. Emerald ash beetle has been found in Illinois and creeping toward Wisconsin. What are the possible effects of the beetle on environment?, Growing respect for elders, Finally tonight, so much for kids not respecting their elders. A new U-W Platteville study shows quite the opposite: A growing respect for older people among college age students.
- Created Date
- 2006-06-16
- Rights
- Content provided from the media collection of Wisconsin Public Broadcasting, a service of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. All rights reserved by the particular owner of content provided. For more information, please contact 1-800-422-9707
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:29:35
- Credits
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- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Wisconsin Public Television (WHA-TV)
Identifier: WPT1.3.2006.450 MB (Wisconsin Public Television)
Format: Betacam: SP
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:27:46
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Here & Now; 450,” 2006-06-16, PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 17, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-36547kxw.
- MLA: “Here & Now; 450.” 2006-06-16. PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 17, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-36547kxw>.
- APA: Here & Now; 450. Boston, MA: PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-36547kxw