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Episode 61 explores the stark reality that almost one in three adolescents will grapple with an anxiety disorder by age 18. Join us as college stud...
- Added: Jan 19, 2024
- Length: 57:54
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 22:09
- Purchases: 1
Following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, a small boat belonging to Takata High School in Rikuzentakata was swept o...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 1
In the early morning hours of February 27, 2010, Martina Marturana felt a slight tremor that lasted a long time. The 12-year-old lived on Robinson...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:28
- Purchases: 1
The California Innocence Project relies on interns to go through thousands of requests for assistance. In this episode, interns share some of their...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
Kamaishi junior high students saved themselves and many others during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Geologist Lori Dengler highlights t...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 01:38
- Purchases: 1
In a world where specializing in one sport is becoming more and more common, Marisa Romeo bucks that trend. She uses her talents to play both lacro...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 07, 2017
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 1
Why do kids bully? And what moves them to stop?
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 30:58
- Purchases: 2
Today 50% of all college students are the first of their families to go to college. They carry the hopes and dreams of there families in their back...
Bought by KRZA and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 2
Developmentally disabled kids play right along with their typically developing peers on this new basketball team, started by their former Special E...
- Added: Jan 26, 2017
- Length: 04:39
This week on What What Why, it's almost prom season and we're examining the event's significance. Love it, hate it, go to it or don’t, but prom is ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 07:59
In 1913, the American Social Hygiene Association launched a campaign to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution. The subject was c...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2012
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 1
Teens in Los Angeles use live theater to battle homophobia in the classroom.
Bought by WHFR, XRAY.fm, KRZA, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 06:06
- Purchases: 4
Rolanda Scott can take a chunk of solid glass, drop it in a flower pot then super heat it in her kiln, turning it into liquid, which she then pours...
- Added: Oct 18, 2011
- Length: 53:46
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 07:52
When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:18
This show's main topic is the part that German immigrants played in the formation of the United States. We hear about General von Stueben who kicke...
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 30:00
Maybe you know where your food comes from. But have you seen and heard about farming through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes? Colby Perron shares his thou...
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 05:51
- Purchases: 2
The games they play here involve dragons, wizards, and superheroes. And sometimes...they come with stereotypes.
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 08:41
- Purchases: 2
Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:41
Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:11
Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 07:30
Quincy Dean is trying to decide whether she should quit being home-schooled.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2009
- Length: 05:28
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 10, 2008
- Length: 30:02
- Purchases: 1
