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A School for All
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Louise Fraser, Credit: Fraser School
Minnesota children with disabilities didn’t go to public school in the early 1900s. They were often sent away to institutions where they lived in h...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 07:02
Top of Mind - Public Education is in Crisis. Are Elected School Boards the Problem?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Public education in America is in crisis. Are elected school boards the problem – or the key to a solution?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT, RADIOLEX, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Top of Mind - Cherokee Language, Rent Control, Praising Kids
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Will the Cherokee Language Survive? Topic 2: Rent Control—Help or Harm? Topic 3: You and I and Our Relationship

Bought by KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:46
  • Purchases: 5
Happier Confident Kids - Episode 5
From: Daisy Oz
Series: Happy News
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Exploring solutions on kids struggling with low self-esteem.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2020
  • Length: 03:01
Third Grade Audio Podcast #1: Reach Out and Read
From: David Green
Series: Third Grade Audio - Service Learning Podcasts
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The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 03, 2019
  • Length: 05:23
  • Purchases: 1
Honoring Jim Henson
From: KUNM
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Jim Henson would have been 80 years old on September 24, 2016. Learn the story of his career and short life.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:00
Summer Learning Series: Upward Bound Takes Students Through High School and Beyond
From: WBHM
Series: Summer Learning Lifts Graduation Rates
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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
Working Coast Camp In Houma Teaches Children About Big Industry
From: WWNO
Series: Coastal Desk
Caption: The Working Coast campers set out fishing on their last day., Credit: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
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
For Some Students, Just Showing Up = Success
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
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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
Bringing storytime to the long wait for social services
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Oakland Public Library children’s librarian reads at the Eastmont Social Service Agency, Credit: Holly J McDede
For many, the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland is the go-to place to apply for food stamps, get medical coverage, find childcare, and get job a...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 06:27
Podcast #60: Day of the African Child draws attention to children living with disabilities
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: Denis Komakech, 17, a blind student, uses his laptop at Gulu High School, northern Uganda, an inclusive school with a special needs annex for children who are blind., Credit: © UNICEF/UGDA2012-00127/Sibiloni
UNICEF podcast moderator Femi Oke discusses the rights of children with disabilities with Shuaib Chalklen, UN Special Rapporteur on Disability of t...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 14, 2012
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 1
Podcast #56: Global Action Week promotes early childhood education
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: A girl learns to identify numbers on her first day at a UNICEF-supported preschool in the Baliqchilar settlement, Azerbaijan., Credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1625/Pirozzi
UNICEF podcast moderator Kathryn Herzog speaks with Jack P. Shankoff, Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Chl...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 1
Podcast #48: Discussing the importance of achieving universal quality education for all children
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: A girl attends Koulweogo Primary School in Zorgho Village in rural Ganzourgou Province in Plateau-Central Region. Burkina Faso was among the first 18 countries invited to join the Fast Track Initiative (now Global Partnership for Education) as early as Ju, Credit: UNICF Burkina Faso/2011/ Marinovitch
The Global Partnership for Education has helped more than 19 million children go to school for the first time. A campaign to renew support for thes...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 09:42
  • Purchases: 1
'Beyond School Books' – a podcast series on education in emergencies
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Podcast #40: Safe schools and education can reduce the impact of disasters

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 11:19
  • Purchases: 1
Lindsay Ordower - "The Go Getter"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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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
Native Americans Special
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Radijojo's presenter Christine
This is a varied piece dealing in all aspects of the Native American. Children of the Montessori Elementary School in Kronberg nearby Frankfurt am ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:58
Berlin Chicago Kids Talk
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Richton Park school kids in Chicago interviewing Berlin Kids live
This segment clearly illustrates the virtually endless possibilities inherent in new forms of media and its impact on primary school children worl...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Sep 29, 2009
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Ocean As Classroom
From: Ari Daniel
Series: Ocean Gazing
Caption: Brunswick Acres Elementary School (Kendall Park, NJ) students Alec, Janani, Megha, Nikita, Pritha., Credit: J Benoff
Janice McDonnell and Jim Yoder describe the urgent need to translate ocean science into formal and informal educational opportunities across the co...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2009
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 1
School on Wheels
From: Leslie Griffin
Series: Los Angeles features
Caption: school on wheels logo, Credit: www.schoolonwheels.org
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
Call Me "Mister"
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The need for male African-American elementary teachers remains pressing.

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WUFT


  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Iraqi children celebrate their return to school
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story is free! It is a feature with interviews with two Iraqi school kids trying to get an education despite the difficulties associated with ...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Oct 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 1
Guatemala's Bilingual-intercultural education aims to keep indigenous girls and boys in school
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This Story is Free! English and Spanish versions available. Guatemalan indigenous children in the forefront with Bilingual-Intercultural Education

  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 08:42
Six months without pay sparks teachers' strike in Gaza and West Bank
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! Children and teachers in Palestine report on the effects of waiting for school to start as strike continues into first days of ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:58
Eat Your Greens 2: Open day at Fairview Elementary
From: Maeve Conran
Series: Eat Your Greens
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Nutrition education also means educating parents on what's good for kids.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 15, 2006
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 1
A Cook's Notebook: The Cordon Bleu Lunch Lady
From: Ali Berlow
Series: A Cook's Notebook
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The kids eat well at the Public Charter School on Martha's Vineyard

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 29, 2004
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1