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Civics and social studies education are getting a lot of attention these days. How do we teach about our democracy?

Bought by KSKA and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:10
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The continued closures of our public schools and high-stakes testing illustrate the institutionalized racism embedded in our educational system. Ji...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 58:23
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In Episode 2, our guests include a former Republican speechwriter, a former centrist Democratic congressional candidate, a former Economist Magazin...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 23:18
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Most of the Western world has a waste problem, and recycling has been pushed by policymakers as one of the best ways to combat it. In Baltimore and...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 10, 2019
  • Length: 16:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Photo of the Texas Capital building on March 11, 2019, during a rally for education finance reform., Credit: Pius Wong
Texans across the state and across the political divide agree: public school funding needs fixing. What that means exactly, however, is tricky. In ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 41:58
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Meet another candidate for Director of Georgetown Divide Public Utilities District (GDPUD)

  • Added: Sep 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:35:07
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How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 25:43
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Nicole Liedke (right)
Podcasting from Compassionate Care Center of CT (one of the six medical marijuana dispensaries in that state) Bobby, on location in the quaint town...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 33:47
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Tony Lucero is a Mexican American professor at The University of Washington. In this piece, Professor Lucero tells us how he came to be an educato...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2013
  • Length: 08:28
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We discuss the implications of Colorado's Concealed Carry Act. We Interview Virginia Tech Massacre survivor and gun control advocate, Colin Goddard...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2013
  • Length: 12:01
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 6
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A short piece of advice for the next president from NYU's Marcelo Su?rez-Orozco.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2008
  • Length: 03:09
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Glen Westbroek, a middle school teacher.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 01:09
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A short piece of advice for the next president from John Wilson, Executive Director of the National Education Association.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: 01:42
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings

  • Added: Oct 07, 2008
  • Length: :36
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Eva Moskowitz, Executive Director of the Harlem Success Academy.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Dr. Steven Paine, West Virginia's superintendent of schools.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:56
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Bob Compton is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur whose documentary film, 2 Million Minutes, takes a look at how six high school students from U...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 06:39
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Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education. A MacArthur Foundation ?Genius,? she founded Central Park East Elementa...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 10:53
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A short piece of advice for the next president from the Educational Trust's Amy Wilkins.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Barbara O'Brien,the Lt. Governor of Colorado and co-chair of the P-20 Education Council.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:25
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A short piece of advice for the next president from Ben Jackson, an English teacher from Denver, Colorado.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:12
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Stories from gay folks who left their mark in the world

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KQED, WXXI Rochester, and KWCW


  • Added: May 28, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5