The Queen Mary is (Finally) Officially Open for Business
Following a limited reopening of the historic ocean liner last December, the Queen Mary announced it will reopen for public tours on April 1. The ship shut down in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. More recently, the operators of the Queen Mary completed critical repairs to the ship to ensure the public’s safety including replacing the ship’s boilers, elevators and restrooms, repairing the plumbing, and upgrading parking.
Joining AirTalk to discuss is Kristy Hutchings, a reporter for the Long Beach Press Telegram, and Steve Caloca, managing director at Evolution Hospitality at the Queen Mary, the company which took over the ship's day to day operations.
A New Report Finds California Students Are Struggling With Reading – What Can We Learn From Top-Performing Schools?
The California Reading Coalition recently released a report on how the state’s students are faring in English language arts. The report, which focused on the scores of low-income Latino third-graders, painted a bleak picture of elementary school reading post-pandemic, with the average percentage of students at grade level falling by eight points. Perhaps surprisingly, high-scoring districts were not just from districts with fewer high-need students, and top performers were spread across urban, rural and suburban districts. What strategies are these high-performing districts using to teach their students? And, with 58% of California’s third graders below grade level in reading, what lessons can other school districts learn from them?
Joining us to discuss are Todd Collins, Organizer of the California Reading Coalition and Dr. Jaymi Abusham, Senior Director of Elementary Curriculum & Instruction, Bonita Unified School District.
Triple Play: Take Me Out To The Ballgame… It’s Opening Day!
It’s opening day for the boys in blue! The Dodgers play the Arizona Diamondbacks starting at Dodger Stadium. It’s the first time the team will play an opening game in their home stadium since 2020. And it’s a night game, which is historically rare. First pitch is at 7:10 pm. To break down what we all need to know about the season opener, we reconvene AirTalk’s Triple Play: Larry Mantle, LAist All Things Considered Host, Nick Roman and host of NPR’s Morning Edition, A Martínez.
Special Live COVID Retrospective: How Has The Pandemic Changed Our Lives And What Have We Learned?
For the past three years, AirTalk has dedicated hundreds of on-air hours to COVID-19 coverage. One of the ways AirTalk has been able to deliver this information in such an immediate manner has been tapping into a powerhouse line-up of doctors working on the frontlines who offered their time and answered your questions. We brought the experts together for a special live event at Caltech’s Beckman Auditorium. They talk about how their lives have personally changed, what they’d change about public messaging looking back, how we use what we’ve learned to prepare for the next global health crisis and much more. The panel included Dr. Dean Blumberg, professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital, Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the UCSF Medical Center, Kristen R. Choi, professor of nursing and public health at UCLA, Dr. Shruti Gohil, professor of medicine and associate medical director for epidemiology and infection prevention at UC Irvine’s School of Medicine, Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, professor of epidemiology and community health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and Dr. Kimberly Shriner, director of Infectious Disease and Prevention at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena. Today, we’re broadcasting the conversation!