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More and more states are joining a movement passing laws to honor students’ bilingualism and biliteracy. In California, thousands of students have ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 54:40
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A large majority of children in the U.S. are not reading at grade level by the time they reach fourth grade and children from low-income families a...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 54:28
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This year 45 states and the District of Columbia are starting to use the new Common Core State Standards for English language and math. Some Latino...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 54:18
Caption: Matthew, 4, is enrolled in preschool in New York., Credit: Marco Vinicio González
The new Mayor of New York is announcing plans for universal pre-K as part of a number of reforms to the local educational system, joining a handful...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 54:30
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Public schools are largely unprepared to teach and guide Latino students. These students face some of the most critical issues in the school syste...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 54:16
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Students of an impoverished elementary school that sits next to a waste dump near the U.S. border scored the best math grades in Mexico in a nation...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 54:34
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The "Blues Rib Shack" is a one hour program within a limited music series. The show contains three segments leaving for for radio announcements and...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Graphics in video games are undoubtedly one of the most talked topics in gaming. By speaking with Dr. Dennis Woytek, I hope to give the audience a ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 07:56
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Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:35
Caption: An hour of classic 70s jazz-rock fusion., Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Host Joe Bev goes back in time to the 1970s for an unusual hour of jazz-rock fusion LP cuts.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WDCB, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Love is in the Air on A Jazz-O-Rama Valentine!, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
A one hour Valentine's Day Special - vintage 78 RPM and vinyl record cuts about love, presented by Lorie Kellogg, filling in for host Joe Bev.

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tasha Rose, Credit: ©Oneiros Imaging/Nathanael England 2012
On this episode of "Art Beat", we travel to St. Paul MN for "Something Tribal This Way Comes". The festival offers workshops in American Tribal Bel...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 20:21
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Luke Zuppan, Josh Parlanti and Allisa Jacobson of the Mississippi Hot Club, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
The Mississippi Hot Club: They're new recording and performing old gypsy jazz, and writing their own music too!

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explain the relationship between money, security, opportunity, memory, an...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
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Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? Well, it turns out it has less to do with the creamy but...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Jazz-O-Rama Christmas Special with Joe Bev, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
An hour of Christmas themed remastered 78 RPM records and LP cuts, hosted by Joe Bev.

Bought by KRCB 104.9, WCBE, WVAS, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Illustration of Pearl Curran and Patience Worth from the American Weekly, ca. 1940
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: In 1912, Abdul-Baha, leader of the Baha'i faith, visited Greenacre, a religious community in Maine founded by Sarah Farmer., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Spiritual but not religious? Professor Leigh Schmidt uses the story of Sarah Farmer, a 19th-century visionary, to illustrate the ever-present strug...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Frederic Church, “Our Banner in the Sky” (1861)
Professor Angela Miller uses examples of portraits, landscape and genre paintings, folk art, and more to describe the intersection of American arts...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Associate professor Patrick Burke reveals how musicians in the 1960s, including the rock band the Godz, resisted predetermined categories and simpl...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 14:00
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBBI Alaska, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 32
Caption: A mid 20th century hearing aid from CHF’s collections.
Part three in our series, The Stages of Life, spotlighting the chemistry found in childhood, adulthood, and old age. First, a look at how brain con...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:01
  • Purchases: 1
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We enlist the aid of noted scholar of autobiography, John Eakin, as we seek to answer Andrew Bird's question: where exactly does the self reside, i...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:26
Caption: Count Basie 78s on Jazz-O-Rama
Cheek to Cheek, Rat Race, and Open the Door, Richard are among the tunes that will fill the air when the Count Basie 78 RM Records is heard on the ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Early LPs on Jazz-O-Rama, Credit: Lorie Kellogg
Skater's Waltz, Serenade to a Cuckoo, and Jive Elephant are among the tunes that will fill the air when the Rahsaan Roland Kirk's Early LPs is hear...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 2