Juvenile Justice; AP Courses and California Students; Parent-Child Speech and the First Amendment; Richter's Scale
Juvenile Justice
Larry and his guests (Tracy Manzer, staff writer with the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law at USC Law School) discuss the sentencing of the teens convicted in the Long Beach Halloween beating case; the differences between the juvenile and adult court systems, and how lighter vs. more severe sentences could affect a teen's life.
AP Courses and California Students
Larry Mantle and guests (Trevor Packer, executive director of the AP Program for the College Board; John Rogers, Professor in the School of Education at UCLA and the co-director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access; Jack O'Connell, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education) discuss the recent study released by the College Board that reports more High School students in California are taking AP courses. The same report also states that African American and Latino students are still underrepresented in AP classrooms.
Parent-Child Speech and the First Amendment
Larry Mantle talks with UCLA Professor of Law Eugene Volokh about his recent Op-Ed piece in the L.A. Times that discusses the issue of parental self expression, its affect on children and the law.
Richter's Scale
Charles Richter is likely the only seismologist whose name is known beyond the scientific world, having invented the concept of magnitude to measure the size of earthquakes. Larry talks with seismologist, Susan Elizabeth Hough about her new book, Richter's Scale (University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton), which tells the complex story of Richter's life, his academic career, and the history of seismology.