Guest: Robert Compton —Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, and Producer of 2 Million Minutes, a documentary film which offers an international comparison of high schools in America, India, and China, and asks whether American high schools are adequately preparing their students to meet the competitive demands of the global marketplace in the 21st Century.

Guest’s Education:  B.A., Principia College (1978); M.B.A., Harvard Business School (1984)

Guest’s Personal Website

Guest’s Documentary:  Website /  Weblog /  Purchase DVD

Video Trailer for Guest’s Documentary:

Host: Mahesha Subbaraman — A high school Lincoln-Douglas debate coach in Minnesota, an Amherst College graduate, the founder/owner of Trinity Briefs, and creator of Colloquy.

Topic Discussed: Should secondary education in America value the fine arts over athletics?

Resource Cited During Interview: The World Is Flat (Tom Friedman)

Length: 45 min.