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A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2013
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 2
Participants at the 2013 Conscious Capitalism conference discuss finding alternatives to the “maximizing shareholder value” model and how business ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 58:58
Tune in to the small town news you need to know!
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 02:29
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
Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Kelley Libby attended the first le...
Bought by KENW and Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 2
Twenty-five masterpiece drawings by Renaissance artist Michelangelo are now on a rare, two-stop tour in America. Producer Kelley Libby attended the...
Bought by Listenwise
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
Skilled tailoring is a dying art. Many of the best tailors hail from Italy where the tradition is unraveling due to a lack of training opportuniti...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 25, 2013
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 2
This month on War News Radio, “Moving Up, Moving Out”, we discuss what stories in the news this week angered us the most. Then, we learn about Fran...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 30:01
Kelley Libby reports on a new study that shows bringing your furry friend to the office can have health benefits.
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 06:10
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs—all names you might recognize as poets of the Beat Generation. But a friend and inspiration to ...
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:27
This week on War News Radio, “Peace News in Wartime”, we discuss the role of Morocco in the Arab Spring. Then, we learn about the process of establ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 30:01
Greg Auger's life was forever changed when he met the bat researching legend Don Griffin. This is the story of the two men, a pond, and what happen...
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 08:05
This month on War News Radio, "Back to Work ". First, we examine the problem of youth unemployment in Morocco. Then, we look into the persecution ...
- Added: Nov 18, 2012
- Length: 29:01
This week, Field Trip Correspondent Lo Benichou take us behind the scenes at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, where wounded seals...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Oct 31, 2012
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 1
As the 2009 ACORN scandal quickly unfolded and funding started to dry up, the groups’ members and organizers had to jump ship. Many formed new loc...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 08:20
- Purchases: 1
Until recently, not much was known about the first Africans who stepped foot on the North American continent. Today, scholars are learning unexpect...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 2
For Lincoln native Alex Pickerel, the reasons for dropping out of high school went beyond merely not liking school. A series of bad turns in his li...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:21
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school dist...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:01
One city's struggle to regain its economic footing is also tied to significant problems in its schools. Jeffrey Brown reports from Reading, Pa., as...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 10:27
Students with learning differences are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according to the National Center for Learning Dis...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
A growing number of state legislatures are using driving privileges as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school. States' laws...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:20
Hoping to stem a high school dropout crisis, one Texas superintendent is luring many students back to school by giving them a taste of college cour...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:00
Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Now, he's a sociology...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:54
Photographer and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Richard Ross has spent five years documenting juvenile detention facilities thro...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 05:46
With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...
Bought by KENW and KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 2
