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The final episode in the Simmer series combines interview with El Salvadorian immigrants in Asheville, NC, cultural reflections from Robert Kohls' ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
Kenny Thompson, a volunteer mentor, tells students Gary Barber and Dakota Gibson about discovering that...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 02:12
- Purchases: 1
Collin Smith (23), who became quadriplegic after a car accident in high school, talks with Ernest Greene (72) who volunteered to go to college with...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 02:27
- Purchases: 1
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
As a researcher and teacher, Korina Jocson has observed and analyzed how students use poetry to make sense of their experiences. But how can educat...
- Added: Apr 01, 2014
- Length: 10:45
The Moneywise Conference Tour present this panel discussion on how you can effective grow your own business.
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 13:36
Communty Talk host Asirian Bowens-Wilson talks to Fareed White of Tri City Peoples Corporation about the need of Host Parents.
- Added: Nov 08, 2013
- Length: 13:20
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:00
Show dedicated toward spotlighting those individuals who turn the heartbreak of unemployment into success in securing a new job or career. Listen ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 16:30
Tri City Peoples Corporation is assisting all to realize their dream of home ownership.
- Added: Aug 04, 2013
- Length: 05:56
Cynthia Alston, Psychiatric Clinical Specialist & Nurse Practioner in Mental Health & Psychiatry speaks about the abusive medication for Mental Dis...
- Added: Aug 04, 2013
- Length: 02:29
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
Melanie is a young woman of Suriname in South America who now lives in Holland and is becoming an icon and inspiration for those who want to change...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 07:54
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by KZYX and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- 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
Trying to entice wayward students back to class in Las Vegas, Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson led teams into communities to knock on d...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:57
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
College can be tough but students who are also mothers have to balance work with real-life home work.
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 10:00
Tyrese Graham remembers his first day as a teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, IL.
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
