Wow.

The WEAA-Melody Simmons-OSI documentary series about Baltimore school attendance problems and solutions is great. If these broadcasts could be syndicated to every radio station in Baltimore, so the audience could be as wide as possible, that would be wonderful. Actually, the information surely is of interest beyond Baltimore.

Transcripts and audio files (podcasts) are hosted at the OSI-Baltimore website. Individual chapters can be downloaded, apparently, but if you begin playing Part 1 on line, the entire series plays without a break.

10 chapters have been posted so far. Parts 11 and 12 will be posted when available.

To play a segment on line, select it and press the play button, the middle (right-pointing) arrowhead at top left of the gray window. Not all the chapters are visible at once - scroll the vertical slider at the right side of the window to see them all.

OSI-BALTIMORE PAGE FOR THIS SERIES:

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/baltimore/multimedia/attendance_20081103