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Part 5: What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up?
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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In Greensboro, North Carolina the textile and manufacturing industries once provided good jobs to generations of people with little or no education...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 3
Part 6: Tests, Tests and More Tests
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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There has been a dramatic change in education and it?s all about numbers. State and federal laws now require schools to measure just about everythi...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KPFT


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 4
Part 7: AP or Not AP?
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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In the past five years, at Western and high schools around the country, there's been a big push to increase the number of students taking higher le...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), 90.5 WSNC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 4
Part 8: The Future of Teachers
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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Schools across the country are scrambling to fill a teacher shortage. In Greensboro, North Carolina, the school system is offering new teachers fre...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KQAT


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 3
Part 10: The Meaning of High School
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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We conclude our series from Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. A team of reporters visited Western over the course of six months?. gettin...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 3
Part 9: Card #10 (Sue)
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States drop out of school. The reasons are many and each story is unique. Today, as ...

Bought by WEZU, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 5
Teenagers on Islamic School and Ramadan
From: KCUR
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FIRST PERSON: Kansas City teenagers talk about Islamic school, public school and Ramadan.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Aug 23, 2006
  • Length: 13:55
  • Purchases: 4
Students' Rights: Then and Now
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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In 1969 the Supreme Court found that students "do not shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate." Today, most schools retain the r...

Bought by KUOW, WXLV-FM, KOOP, WXLV-FM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 5
Down With Letterman
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Story Salon Live
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Lance Anderson discusses how David Letterman shaped his youth--at the cost of hot sex.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 1
Happy Accident
From: Littleglobe
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The unintentional discovery of my passion

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Aug 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Education For Change
From: Seattle Globalist
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A Visit to the Pardada Pardadi Girls' Vocational School in rural Uttar Pradesh, India

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 12, 2006
  • Length: 08:22
  • Purchases: 1
An Exceptional Summer
From: WSKG
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A report on the summer satellite program in Harpursville, NY for at-risk children created by a community partnership

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Aug 02, 2006
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
Hopeless in High School
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Some kids joke about dropping out, but when Sarah Smith's family started to fall apart, she saw it as her only option.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, WXLV-FM, YouthCast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 03, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 4
The Soda Fountain of Youth
From: Dick Meister
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The soda fountain was once an important neighborhood fixture.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 28, 2006
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 1
Class of 2006: Part 3
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
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How a student who nearly didn't make it out of 10th grade, graduates from high school.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Class of 2006: Part 2
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
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How a student overcame poor grades to head off to high school.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 03:38
Class of 2006: Part 1
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
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The graduation story of student Moriah Williams.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Kirk Douglas
From: David Greenberger
Series: The Duplex Planet
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A schoolyard encounter with Kirk Douglas.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 01:16
Surviving a Tsunami: The story of Valdivians in 1960
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Terrascope Radio Major Features
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A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Moon's Sister
From: KUHB
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Native Youth tell the story of their recent origins

Bought by KSUT and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2006
  • Length: 23:29
  • Purchases: 2
Escape Velocity
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Ten homeless teens write and perform skits, poems, and letters based on life experiences.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 3
Remember the Time
From: Song and Memory
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Remember the Time by Michael Jackson provides a soundtrack for Pascall's memory of being disciplined by his cousin.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Esther and Abuelita
From: Radio Rookies
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A young woman and senior citizen learn from each other about dealing with loss.

Bought by KVNF and YouthCast


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 2
Life on 'The Ave'
From: KUOW
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"It's very much an organism in itself. What can I say? This place has a bit of enchantment to it."

  • Added: Apr 06, 2006
  • Length: 23:58
The Best Baseball Season Ever
From: Dick Meister
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Major League Baseball is OK, but I prefer baseball as it was played by me and others in baseball-crazy Boonville and the other small towns in the M...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2006
  • Length: 04:02

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