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There is a secret at the local elementary school...and the kids want answers.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
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In the final episode of this NatGeo-funded series, we hear from education experts in the region. Dr. Didacus Jules, former head of the Caribbean Ex...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 13:24
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In this first podcast in the series sponsored by the National Geographic Society's COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists, we hear from an economi...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 12:38
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A child's arrest is the first official step into the juvenile justice system, but law enforcement practices push kids out of other systems that are...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 28:24
Caption: Chris Gough, scientist and professor at VCU.
It is the most expansive war in human history, and it is occurring on every continent. Unlike all previous wars, this one is truly a world war beca...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 27:37
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For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeate...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Charles McGuigan
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:19
Caption: David Hudson, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 27:11
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Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jonathon Austin, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 23:44
Caption: Jonathan Austin, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 27:02
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Our aging US fleet of diesel school buses exposes kids to toxic fumes, inside and out. Twin Rivers Unified School District is one of the first in t...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 19, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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A 10-year-old boy's journey to legally and socially change his gender in his hometown in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 24:44
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Stories of children getting their tongues stuck to metal things in winter.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
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Today's installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota has completely gone to the dogs as Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack wa...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:41
Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford
(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KUER, KCBX, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Second Grade students from Portland, Oregon's Beverly Cleary Elementary School tour us around one of the sites from the famed author's childhood ho...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2017
  • Length: 10:19
Caption: Charles climbing the summit of Cadillac Mountain., Credit: Charles McGuigan
The schools claim there is zero tolerance for bully, but one school system practices bullying against students and parents alike.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2017
  • Length: 21:35
Caption: Laura Aguilar at grad school, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio
More than 3 million unauthorized immigrants live in California. This one-hour documentary tells stories of three immigrants from Mexico: a working ...

Bought by KQED, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPBS, KVSC, KCBX and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
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The Miracle Workers of Holton Elementary School are Christal Mark, Ricky Gay, Mary Pace, Robin Barber, Cheryll Hughes and Latonya Brown-Oliver. Wha...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 23:46
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Jim Henson would have been 80 years old on September 24, 2016. Learn the story of his career and short life.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:00
Caption: Abbie Catherine Waters
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...

  • Added: May 26, 2016
  • Length: 27:28
Caption: Abbie Catherine Waters
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...

  • Added: May 20, 2016
  • Length: 26:25