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Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting August 18th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the nerd with all of the glasses (8 nerdy pa...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 54:00
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
High school dropouts like Alex Pickerel return to high school for career training and GED prep courses.
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:43
In New Orleans, the city with the most public charter schools in the nation, individual charters’ standards of discipline can vary widely. Sharon L...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 06:35
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
Special correspondent John Tulenko reports from Indiana, where a voucher program allows families to choose religious schools, charter schools and p...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 11:20
As part of our American Graduate focus on teachers, testing and accountability, Ray Suarez moderated a discussion with several New York public scho...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 06:16
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...
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- 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
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
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
How does violence affect students' ability to learn? That's what eighth-grader De'Qonton Davis and his classmates set out to investigate as part of...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:04
Part of the American Graduate project addressing the country's high school dropout crisis, teachers across the nation have weighed in at town halls...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 11:11
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting August 4th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the nerd host, opens with the past weeks news...
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 54:00
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The North Carolina State Assembly is moving forward with a budget plan that includes some restoration of education funding los...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 01:45
DES MOINES, Iowa - Engineering used to be a career field that appealed mostly to boys - but that's changing. Des Moines Area Community College, Iow...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 01:09
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting June 2nd, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the host with the glasses, opens with news of W...
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
DURHAM, N.C. - Teachers from the Teach for America program are among the best prepared for classrooms in the state, compared with other early-caree...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 01:35
CARY, N.C. - North Carolina now has a global heat map, which has nothing to do with the temperature. Rather, it shows the state's business climate ...
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 01:27
The 2013- 2014 school year will mark a historic change in the academic operations of Miami University. The rising popularity of a winter session wi...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 03:38
The residents of Islesboro, Maine are fighting against a growing Lyme disease panic.
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- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 06:36
- Purchases: 1
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting January 21st, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell opened with the news of the week, including Kodak...
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 54:03
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting November 26th, 2011. Benjamin Rockwell opened with news regarding Chattanooga, TN's Gig...
- Added: Nov 25, 2011
- Length: 54:00
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting November 19th, 2011. Benjamin opens up as always with the computer and technology news ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2011
- Length: 54:00
