The Bob Edwards Show, David Broder, Diane Ravitch, Dan Gediman, and Wallace Stegner, April 2, 2010

David Broder of The Washington Post joins Bob to talk politics. Next, The Obama administration has just presented a new blueprint for education reform - an issue of great concern to Diane Ravitch. She's Research Professor of Education at New York University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Ravitch will discuss the proposed changes and her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

Then, in this week's installment of our ongoing series This I Believe, Bob talks with curator Dan Gediman about the essay of writer and educator Wallace Stegner. He published over 30 novels, collections of short stories and essays, and historical works. The Big Rock Candy Mountain was among his most popular novels, and Angle of Repose won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Stegner wrote about the American West, which he also fought to protect. [Broadcast Date: April 2, 2010]