In this edition of WYSO Weekend, the home of YSO produced news and features: The Dwight Anderson Story comes to the Kroc Center in Dayton this week. Anderson was considered a high school basketball phenomenon at Roth in the 1970’s. He went on to the NBA and then almost lost it all. We’ll find out how technology is helping students with disabilities, and the new challenges it brings them. And where does your recycling go? We’ll answer that question and more in our program.
- Ohio Gov. John Kasich recently said the state’s school board is too focused on politics. That comment was in response to a request from seven school board members for an outside investigation into Ohio’s charter schools. The board also wants an impartial investigation into whether State Superintendent Richard Ross was involved in the scrubbing of failing grades at some charters. School Choice Director David Hansen has already resigned over the issue. WYSO’s Ariel Van Cleave sat down with State School Board President Tom Gunlock. He says politics aren’t necessarily the board’s main problem.
- College students are surrounded by technology inside and outside of the classroom. And increasingly educators are reaching learners through smart phones and laptops. Community Voices producer Jeff Hiles is an instructional designer at Wright State University. He finds that for some students with disabilities, the move to online learning brings new opportunities and new challenges.
- Wright State University and Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley want to cultivate and support women leaders from the Miami Valley, so they’ve formed the Women's Leadership Collaborative of Greater Dayton. Within the new organization, they’ll try to increase the number of women in the region who hold leadership roles in government, education and business. To find out some more details about the program, we spoke with Dr. Kimberly Barrett. She’s the VP of Multi-cultural Affairs at Wright State.
- Every week we set our recycling on the curb and the next day, like magic, it’s gone. But Carmen Milano, a yoga teacher in Yellow Springs, has some doubts. For WYSO Curious, producer Carey Scheer lifts the lid the recycling bin. *WYSO Curious is our series that takes your questions and curiosities and turns them into radio stories. See pictures of the recycling center online...and submit your own question while you’re there at W-Y-S-O dot org.
- On Wednesday, August 26, The Dayton Human Relations Council will premiere a short documentary film about one of the region's sports legends. "The Dwight Anderson Story” will be shown at the Kroc Center on N. Keowee St. in Dayton at 6pm. The film looks at the early success, and subsequent struggles of Anderson—described as a Dayton high school basketball phenomenon whose speed in the late 1970s earned him the nickname "The Blur." Both Anderson and Cleveland sports writer Branson Wright, the film's producer, will be host a Q&A after the screening. I spoke to Wright by phone and asked him how Anderson’s story came to him.
