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- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 20:26
- Purchases: 1
The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 1
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 06:23
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
For the second week of April (4/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a crooning cowboy who sang both English and Spanish.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
A "newsical" overview of the news media craze for stories about animals, our own personal relationships with animals and my own experience as a per...
- Added: Mar 23, 2012
- Length: 56:21
Have you noticed? No matter what else is going on in the world...the cable news channels and the network evening news broadcasts always have time f...
- Added: Mar 10, 2012
- Length: 56:05
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 11:37
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 12:10
- Purchases: 2
There’s a question every good jazz musician can answer just by listening to a song: "Does it Swing?"
Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 13:09
- Purchases: 2
September 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. What started out as a modest two day affair heavy on regional ...
- Added: Sep 06, 2011
- Length: 55:44
The Portland Fruit Tree Project harvests fruit that would otherwise go to waste and gives it to area food banks, where fresh produce is scarce.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 01, 2011
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 25, 2011
- Length: 13:38
- Purchases: 1
Janis Joplin. Roky Erikson. Doug Sahm. Stevie Ray Vaughan. Names like these helped establish Austin’s global reputation as hothouse for great music...
- Added: Aug 22, 2011
- Length: 01:00:00
Old time fiddling in North America is different wherever you go. In some places in the southwest, old fiddlers play the waltzes and polkas that cam...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 11, 2011
- Length: 06:49
- Purchases: 1
You do something in the present and it has a consequence. Obviously. You cannot tell any kind of story without one event leading to another. Like i...
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
