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What Happens When the People Decide?
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 32:45
New York's Hunter College is falling apart
From: Julian Abraham
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
The Complicated Debate Around New York City's Specialized High Schools
From: Katie Anastas
Caption: Teens Take Charge press officers Ayana Smith and Sophie Mode at a press conference on May 17, 2019., Credit: Teens Take Charge Instagram
New York City has been trying to improve diversity in its schools for years. But lawmakers, parents, teachers and students disagree about how to do...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 26:40
Episode 2: Everyone Eats
From: Elia Powers
Series: Areas of Agreement
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A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together

  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:19
Episode 1: The ununited state of juvenile justice
From: Rebecca Blatt
Series: Kids Imprisoned
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Based on the laws in the places they live and the adults who happen to be involved in their cases, kids in the juvenile justice system have dramati...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 32:10
EP85 New Releases
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Crusin' The Blues with Mr. Jack
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Join Mr. Jack as he showcases 7 New Blues Album releases

  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:27
Episode 3: One Foot In The Black
From: North State Public Radio
Series: California Burning
Caption: Shasta-Trinity Forest Rangers Randy Paris, Dan Ostermann, Kevin Osbourne and Carol Underhill
On the third episode of California Burning, we talk to many people who are or have been working directly with fire - both deep in the forests, and ...

Bought by Capital Public Radio, KSKA, KVCR, WMRA, KCBX and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Hidden in Plain Sight: Sensory Processing Disorder
From: Benedict Carrizzo
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Documentary on a developmental affliction called "Sensory Processing Disorder."

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 24:44
Justice in Engineering Education
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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The SXSW Education conference and festival in 2017 highlighted equity, fairness, and justice as a major theme. How does this apply to engineering ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2018
  • Length: 43:03
Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
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
Keeping Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Teacher Christopher McFadden is a member of The Fellowship, a group in Philadelphia trying to recruit and retain black male teachers. Only 2 percent of teachers in American public schools are black men., Credit: Emily Hanford
(8/28/2017) There may be nothing more important in the educational life of a child than having effective teachers. But the United States is struggl...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KOSU, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10
Spies of Mississippi
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Spies of Mississippi is a journey into the world of informants, infiltrators, and agent provocateurs in the heart of Dixie. Directed and produced b...

Bought by WVAS, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRIR, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Episode 7: The Craft of Chocolate
From: Slow Melt Productions
Series: The Slow Melt: A Podcast About Chocolate
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What is craft chocolate? The short answer is: It’s complicated. This episode might not give you all the answers, but you will most definitely learn...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 24:00
Rotunda Restoration (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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When Donald Trump takes the inaugural stage this month, he’ll be doing so in front of the newly restored Capitol Dome. But just over a hundred mile...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
Beyond the Blackboard: Building Character in Public Schools
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in New York conquers a high ropes course., Credit: Stephen Smith
In the 1940s a British headmaster named Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school called Outward Bound to teach young men the skills they needed to surv...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WITF, Vermont Public, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
From Boots to Books: Student Veterans and the New GI Bill
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith
The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Teaching Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Teachers in Chicago doing "lesson study," a teacher improvement practice borrowed from Japan., Credit: Emily Hanford
This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
A starting place for former foster youth
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Darrell Molett in his living room, Credit: Rachel Wong
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:47
Rethinking Jewish Identity and Jewish Education
From: Elizabeth DiNolfo
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If Jewish education is to respond to the needs of American Jews and their communities in the 21st century, we need to rethink the assumption that J...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 1
Second Chance Diploma: Examining the GED
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Studying for the GED at an adult education school in Washington, D.C., Credit: Emily Hanford
Millions of high school dropouts hope their ticket to a better job is getting a GED. But critics say passing a test is not the same as getting a hi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, WITF, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 15
One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Future Docs 5: Are We Training Enough New Doctors?
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs
Caption: Resident Brian Drolet examines a patient's burned arm., Credit: Kristin Gourlay
The nation spends billions of dollars every year training future doctors. But health care experts worry we’re still not training enough doctors to ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 06:07