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When you think of the process of brewing beer, you might conjure images of elephant-sized copper kettles and elaborate networks of pipes. But here in Knoxville, a group of brewers is making beer on a much smaller scale-- in their kitchens, garages, and driveways. As part of WUOT's Next Wave Radio Project, Annie Byrnes takes a look at the passion behind the process of making a good brew…
The University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research predicts there will more than 31,000 teacher openings in Tennessee by the year 2013. The challenge for area school systems will be finding quality teachers to fill those vacancies. Teacher education programs are doing their best to improve their reputation and attract the best and brightest students to the field. But they'll have to fight the perception that, "those that can, do and those that can't, teach." Leslie Snow reports...
This week marks the beginning of classes in many school districts throughout East Tennessee. And it's a pivotal time. With a half billion dollars in Race-to-the-Top funds, Tennessee's system of education will definitely change in the coming years. In fact, it's already changing. In Part 2 of WUOT's three-part series on Teacher Effectiveness, Chrissy Keuper looks at the way Tennessee has evaluated teachers in the past--- and what the state already has planned for the future...
This week marks the beginning of classes in many school districts throughout East Tennessee. And it's a pivotal time. With a half billion dollars in Race-to-the-Top funds, Tennessee's system of education will definitely change in the coming years. In fact, it's already changing. Over the next three days, WUOT will take a look at one of the most controversial issues being discussed--teacher effectiveness. In part one of our series, Matt Shafer Powell examines how a seemingly simple subject can actually be very complicated...
As a young man growing up in the 1970's, Gerry Boylan hitchhiked all around the U.S. and Canada. He says he probably covered more than 100,000 miles. Thirty-five years later, he's written a novel called "Getting There", based on his experiences. And to promote it, he's hitchhiking his way down I-75. As he passed through Knoxville, he sat down with WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell to discuss his life on the road--- then and now...
The Cumberland Mountains to the north of Knoxville are home to most of the coal mines in East Tennessee... and towns like Briceville, Fraterville, and Lake City grew up around the mining industry. Lake City was once called Coal Creek. In the 1890s, Coal Creek and the surrounding area experienced a major labor uprising involving coal miners, leased convict labor, the Tennessee Legislature and Governor's office and the state militia. On August's Dialogue, Chrissy Keuper speaks with Barry Thacker and Carol Moore of the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation about that period of East Tennessee history...