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Summer Learning Series: Upward Bound Takes Students Through High School and Beyond
From: WBHM
Series: Summer Learning Lifts Graduation Rates
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Remember when you could get a job with just a high school diploma? By 2020, it’s projected that 65 percent of jobs will require a diploma, AND, hig...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 04:40
Summer Learning Series: Ambitious Program Gears Up To Push Middle-Schoolers Past High School
From: WBHM
Series: Summer Learning Lifts Graduation Rates
Caption: A view from the balcony: the Young Musicians Camp ensemble plays everything from classical to “All About That Bass” at the University of Montevallo. , Credit: Dan Carsen
Fewer reading materials in the home. Less access to camps or museums. Those are some of the reasons “summer learning loss” disproportionately affe...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
Great Expectations
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Making the transition from teenager to independent adult is hard enough… but without family support, it’s especially tricky. Lilia Fuquen reports ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 1
How activists are reviving a historic waterway in Bayview-Hunters Point
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Bo Barnes, president of Kayaks Unlimited., Credit: TASIN SABIR
The sun is beating down on Islais Creek, a small marine channel in Hunters Point that opens out into the Bay. Homeless camps, graffiti, and factori...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
A neighborhood history tour aims to strengthen Bayview-Hunters Point
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Oscar James stands in front of the old Chinese seafood restaurant where he used to buy bags of shrimp, Credit: KYUNG JIN LEE
Sixty-eight-year-old Oscar James stands on a hill overlooking the old Hunters Point Shipyard. He points out a street that’s now closed off by a cha...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:46
Boneshaker Books is a bike-centric collective
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Boneshaker Books is a collectively run, all-volunteer, progressive bookstore in the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis. It has a year round. free b...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Spiritual Edge: The key to happiness? It's in the science
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - The Spiritual Edge
Caption: Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Science Director at the Greater Good Science Center and co-instructor of The Science of Happiness, Credit: Liz Mak
U.C. Berkeley is known for its world-class scientists, in disciplines like physics, chemistry or biology. But just a few blocks away from campus, y...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 1
Teens digitally detox
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Hundreds of students at Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco are taking part in a nationwide Tech Timeout, challenging students to unplug f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
Createch connects kids to learning
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
The East Side Freedom Library
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Last year, when the St. Paul Public Library vacated a building in East St. Paul, another venture moved in—and its dynamic focus is spelled out in i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
  • Purchases: 2
Treasure Island High School offers oasis of hope for disconnected youth
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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There’s a lot of talk in education circles these days about changing to the common core curriculum or changing from books to computers. But at Life...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 08:23
Touch Of Grey: Lecturing to retired Deadheads
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Peter Richardson lecturing about the legacy of the Grateful Dead., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
Peter Richardson, a lecturer at San Francisco State, was teaching a course on the Grateful Dead at a school for adults over 50. A cultural history ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 1
Frugal Science: How one lab is using toys to make chemistry accessible to the world
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: A pile of foldscopes, Credit: Prakash Lab
I am in a lab tucked away in the basement of a Stanford University engineering building. Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash is showing me a tiny...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 2
Robotics Club Inspires Latinos to Study Science
From: Radio Bilingue
Series: Diploma en Mano
Caption: Dianna Valenzuela working on a robot., Credit: Valeria Fernandez / Radio Bilingüe
In Phoenix, Arizona, a robotics club has become a springboard for Latino students to go on to graduate from college with degrees in technology, mat...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
Pathway to College
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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College-aged Latinos are the fastest growing population in Northern Virginia, yet these young adults are rarely making it through the education pip...

Bought by KENW, WXDU, and WEZU


  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 3
Working Coast Camp In Houma Teaches Children About Big Industry
From: WWNO
Series: Coastal Desk
Caption: The Working Coast campers set out fishing on their last day., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
South Louisiana’s Terrebonne Parish has low unemployment — there are lots of jobs in offshore services. So many that there could be a shortage of l...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:46
Replacing School Suspensions with Restorative Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Reporter Joanne Mar takes us to a middle school in San Francisco that took a chance and moved away from zero-tolerance discipline. The decision has...

Bought by Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
Science Straight Up (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...

Bought by WABE, WXDU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
Teaching Intelligence (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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As the son of the great civil rights attorney, Oliver Hill Sr., Oliver Hill Jr. knows a thing or two about fighting for equality. He says that toda...

Bought by KENW, WABE, and WXDU


  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
For Some Students, Just Showing Up = Success
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
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Educators at one Brooklyn high school focus on getting their at-risk students across the threshold of the building. Sounds simple, right? Think again.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WABE, and WNIJ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 3
WIN Labor Report: December 13, 2013
From: Workers Independent News
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Updates on locked-out nurses, NYU grad students, and restaurant guides!

  • Added: Dec 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
The Flipped Classroom (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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It’s an age old question for teachers from elementary school to college: how do you get students to do their homework? Some educators are trying to...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:28
Collecting Accents (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
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Contrary to popular belief, regional accents are still very much a part of the American cultural landscape. Allison Quantz has the story of a Virgi...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 2
Veterans in the Classroom
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 4
Chemistry Magic
From: With Good Reason
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In mid-May, more than 1500 high school students competed in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The winning projects included a p...

Bought by Radio Newark, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3