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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2021
- Length: 03:27
Afterschool programs can provide students with additional education opportunities. But a Duke University researcher says these programs can also u...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Exploring solutions on kids struggling with low self-esteem.
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 03:01
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
This piece offers insight into the lives and sacrifices of dancers who practice a unique form of dance.
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 04:09
As a result of their backgrounds of abuse and neglect, many foster children have developmental delays in early childhood. A curriculum-based day ca...
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
Kids aging out of foster care can also stay on Medicaid. But having coverage is not the same thing as accessing health care, and without parents to...
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 2
Because of their backgrounds which often include neglect and abuse, many of the kids in foster care around the country have significant health need...
Bought by KSFR, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WMMT
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 3
Foster children receive support from the health system and the child welfare system. But the most important piece in their development and recovery...
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
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
On any given night in Minnesota, more than 4,000 youth and young adults are homeless and on their own. Avenues for Homeless Youth is a safe place t...
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 05:29
This April, sisters of Alpha Xi Delta sorority chapters across the country are working to raise awareness for Autism. Syracuse University sorority ...
- Added: Apr 06, 2015
- Length: 04:05
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
Every year, over the course of a weekend, San Francisco’s Civic Center is transformed into a giant playground.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:59
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
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
Stories about people coming out as gay or lesbian are more and more common. But usually it’s young people coming out to parents or friends. Allison...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXDU
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 02:40
- Purchases: 2
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
Nonverbal until age four, Temple Grandin was first diagnosed with autism at age 2. Now, so many years and hurdles later, Grandin’s success in the l...
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 02:23
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
The Abeona House is a New Orleans preschool that’s working to address this issue by introducing farm to table values to children from the very start.
- Added: Sep 29, 2013
- Length: 04:59
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
For kids in school, Spring Break is offering a much needed respite from the pressures of being a student. Two psychologists are working with a tech...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 2
A robotics competition for 9- to 14-year-olds is a sneaky way to get kids excited about science. Allison Quantz followed one team into competition ...
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 2
The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 06, 2012
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 3
When people ask Lita Trejo what it's like to be a foster parent, she explains, "It's like asking a parent 'what do you do as a parent?' It's the sa...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 03:24
