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Folk Show Playlist 3/31/02

Bob Collier is an adjunct professor of engineering at Dartmouth College and an expert in acoustics. He's working on new ways to prevent hearing loss, he's done research on concert halls, and he's helped design new baseball bats that combine the durability of metal with the the good old- fashioned "crack of the bat."

A Maine-based coalition of fishermen and scientists says it has developed an ecologically based plan to control over fishing in the Gulf of Maine.
At the same time the coalition says the plan would spare hundreds of fishing-related jobs.
Details of the plan have yet to be provided.
But representatives of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance say it will combine zone management with gear restrictions instead of forcing fishermen to drastically cut their days at sea.
Maine Public Radio?s Susan Chisholm has more.

When you buy meat at the store, it comes on a little foam tray- which most everyone tosses out. Annette Mitchell is an art professor at Plymouth State College and she's created a new print-making technique using those trays. She says it's easy for beginners and can produce great art in the hands of the more experienced.

Also, we hear a story from out favorite storysmith, Rebecca Rule. This one's titled "Mina Runs for Selectman."

With the recent passage of the new federal education law, testing will increase. John Merrow, the author of "Achieving Excellence" and researched, wrote and narrated the "Frontline" segment "Testing Our Schools." He told NHPR's Jon Greenberg that tests work well when they have a tight connection to the courses that students take. The problem is, Merrow says, few states invest the time and money to do that. But Merrow emphasized that in some places, teachers and administrators welcome standards and standardized tests.