Andy and Stafford co-host, debating the Hawaii furlough debacle’s media attention, Texas’s new teacher prep accreditation requirements, and North Carolina’s bizarre decision to make a graduation-requirement change retroactive. Then Amber tells us about the new NCES report on the lowering of state standards and Mickey rates the merits of eating flies (Gadfly is shocked—and fearful!). Click here to listen through our website and peruse past editions. To download the show as an mp3 to your computer, click here (no iPod required--this link will play through any music software on your computer, including Windows Media Player or RealPlayer).