Many low-income families depend on a free breakfasts and lunches to feed their kids during the school year, but it can be difficult for them to aff...
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Of D.C. public and charter school students, 26 percent are considered chronically absent. They’ve missed more than 10 days of school in a single ye...
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- Length: 02:08
Many low-income students and their families struggle in the summer months to balance work and childcare and that can make it hard to fit in reading...
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
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For many adults in Washington trying to earn a high school diploma, the biggest hurdle in completing their education isn’t the coursework — it’s ge...
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At Turner Elementary School in Southeast D.C., Torren Cooper is the only male of color who works directly in the classroom, even though the student...
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After a few high-profile child abuse cases involving school employees during the 2015-2016 school year, Prince George’s County Schools strengthened...
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Southeast D.C. resident Gary Jones is no fan of President Donald Trump. “I have major, major, major issues with this administration,” he says. But ...
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A new program at the Montgomery County Public Schools is giving more kids a shot at enrichment programs.
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Commencement season has begun for universities around the region, but Friday’s ceremony at Gallaudet University was a little different from most.
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 03:32
Explore in our company a colorful palette of beautiful Francophone songs. No need to speak French to enjoy the show. The commentary is in English.
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 26:48
(Air Dates: May 1 - 7) This week on 12th Street Jump, we celebrate the birthday of jazz bassist Ron Carter. Two presidential perpetrators get some ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
Jimmy Preston made a major contribution to early Rock n' Roll by ushering in the era of the screamin' sax. He is mostly remembered today for his or...
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- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 59:01
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Yesterday's leading men in musicals have been replaced by new younger talents. The cycle of rising and fading stars is a fact of life. Here are the...
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In the last few years, many colleges and universities have created a new policy that bans all consensual relationships between undergraduates and f...
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This week Theresa speaks with Diane Hatz a nonprofit social entrepreneur who educates and raises awareness about food and farming. As Founder/Exec...
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
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The topic - education. WAMU's education reporting has been generously supported in-part by the Corporation For Public Broadcasting.
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- Updated: Apr 29, 2018
An Iraqi activist shares stories about silence as a form of protection in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 30:30
First woman to win the Tour de France (for women!) in 1984 Marianne Martin talks about cycling, training, and her current work. Project Poverty fo...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 01:00:21
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
In honor of the microbreweries finally populating this area. Craft is the word. We will sip discretely as we guzzle music from England and America....
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 02:57:45
Jossie Chavira's Song Story is dark and disturbing. As an undocumented Trans, Jossie is daily reminded in the media, at work and in her social lif...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 04:57
Henry David Thoreau founded our literature of trees, glorying in the Eastern White Pine as the “emblem of my life,” to stand for “the West, the wil...
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Tommaso Fiorilli - Cinematographer - Cages, The Attack, Baron Noir, The Insult
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
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In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 21:29