The Brian Lehrer Show

Ernest Negotiations

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The police have one; teachers have one; firefighters, too, but in New York City, public school principals have been working without a contract for three years. On our next program, the new head of the principals union, Ernest Logan, on why principals and the City may finally come to terms. Then, the religious experiences of black women.

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Principled Choices

Ernest Logan, president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators discusses his goals for the Council and the negotiations over their contract

Whistle While You Work

Gina Trapani, editor of Lifehacker.com and author of the book by the same name and Marian Bateman consultant at the David Allen Company tell us how we can work more efficiently and gives us the tricks of the trade

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Loosed Women

Marla Frederick, assistant professor of religion and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (University of California Press, 2003), and Jacqueline Grant, director of the Black Women in Church and Society Program at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, speak about how black women express spirituality.