Flashpoints on 05/17/12

Host Dennis Bernstein is live in the KBOO studio to talk about his life, work and his book Special Ed: Voices from a Hidden Classroom.

Poetry. Come into the special ed classroom, where the kids who don't fit in anywhere else spend their day. For these kids—real kids Dennis J. Bernstein taught in the New York City public schools before he became an internationally known investigative journalist—pistols, switchblades, police cars and hunger are more instructive than textbooks. SPECIAL ED is about daily life under the siege of poverty, racism, and class warfare

Dennis speaks at a benefit for KBOO Thursday, May 17th at 7pm at St Johns Booksellers.