Learning Russian

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Learning-Russian.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/23/2001 Learning Russian Transcript One of our close friends is Russian, and she is raising her young child to speak that language first. Their son is a toddler — he’s just turned two — and everything in their house is now in Russian — […]

Getting Out the Vote

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Getting-Out-the-Vote.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 10/26/2000 Getting out the Vote Transcript These are important days, the final countdown to the first presidential election of the new millennium! Because I know that your New Millennium’s Resolution is to remember to participate fully in the democratic process, and because your children […]

Between the Lions

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Between-the-Lions.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 9/22/2000 Between the Lions Transcript Here’s Koren Stembridge on the Internet. This year, graduates of Sesame Street were introduced to a new show designed specifically for them – it’s called Between the Lions. The show features – you guessed it – a family of […]

Maria Montessori

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maria-Montessori.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/31/2000 Maria Montessori Transcript It’s Maria Montessori’s birthday today. She was born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy; and by the time she was 26, she had become that country’s first female physician. Her treatment of mentally retarded children led her to study psychology, and […]

Brown vs. Board of Education

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Brown-vs-BOE.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 5/17/2000 Brown vs. BOE Transcript Today is the anniversary of the 1954 supreme court decision known as Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. Generally, most people know that these words, Brown v. Education, are what led to the most startling […]