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Jacki talks with Albert Shanker who is president of the American Federation of Teachers. The AFT has launched a national campaign calling for a "Code of Conduct" in the nation's schools. Shanker says schools are struggling with a student discipline problem and that the only solution is standards for behavior.

Jacki visits a one-room schoolhouse in Waterford, Virginia where urban school children are being taught the old fashioned way. The school was built in the 1860's by Quakers who wanted to provide an education for freed slaves. The school was attended by African American students until the 1950's.

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT THE FILM "DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS," A WALTER MOSLEY DETECTIVE NOVEL ADAPTED TO THE SCREEN AND STARRING DENZEL WASHINGTON AS EZEKIEL "EASY" RAWLINS.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH POET, TEACHER AND ONE OF NPR'S ALL THINGS CONSIDERED COMMENTATORS...ANDRE CODRESCU, ABOUT HIS NEW NOVEL "THE BLOOD COUNTESS," WHICH DEALS WITH THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COUNTESS ELIZABETH BATHORY IN 16TH CENTURY HUNGARY. (PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER)

Daniel talks with Dr. Tom Widgely, a climatologist based in Boulder Colorado. Scientists are now saying that Global Warming does exist and blame the cause on humans. They hadn't said so officially in the past because scientific proof remained elusive. Now they're sure and are predicting that among other things the Earth's average temperature will continue to rise - and with it, ocean levels.

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AS THE UNITED NATIONS 50TH ANNIVERSARY APPROACHES, TREVOR ROWE ASSESSES THE U.N.'S ROLE IN ABATING THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS, PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF ECONOMIC AID TO POOR COUNTRIES.

ALEX TALKS WITH WRITER JON MARGOLIS ABOUT HIS VISIT TO NORTH DAKOTA, A STATE THAT IS RAPIDLY DE-POPULATING AND WHICH MANY PEOPLE, INCLUDING THE AUTHOR, THINK SHOULD PERHAPS DISAPPEAR. ALEX ALSO SPEAKS WITH THE GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA, WHO DISAGREES WITH THESE SENTIMENTS.

N-P-R Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr is watching General olin Powell's apparent transformation from soldier to politician.