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Part 5: What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up?
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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In Greensboro, North Carolina the textile and manufacturing industries once provided good jobs to generations of people with little or no education...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:02
  • Purchases: 3
Part 6: Tests, Tests and More Tests
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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There has been a dramatic change in education and it?s all about numbers. State and federal laws now require schools to measure just about everythi...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KPFT


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 4
Part 7: AP or Not AP?
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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In the past five years, at Western and high schools around the country, there's been a big push to increase the number of students taking higher le...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), 90.5 WSNC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 4
Part 8: The Future of Teachers
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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Schools across the country are scrambling to fill a teacher shortage. In Greensboro, North Carolina, the school system is offering new teachers fre...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KQAT


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:03
  • Purchases: 3
Part 10: The Meaning of High School
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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We conclude our series from Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. A team of reporters visited Western over the course of six months?. gettin...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 3
Part 9: Card #10 (Sue)
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States drop out of school. The reasons are many and each story is unique. Today, as ...

Bought by WEZU, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:09
  • Purchases: 5
PART 5: RESTORING STREAMS IN THE HEARTLAND
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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Farmers work to restore a channelized river.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:45
PART 4: TOO MUCH MANURE?
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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A look at the environmental costs of a large-scale dairy operation.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:32
PART 3: LIVESTOCK FARMS GET BIG
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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The environmental and social costs of large livestock farms

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:19
PART 2: CITIES COPE WITH PESTICIDE POLLUTION
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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Cities work to clean up pollution from pesticides in their water supplies.

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:36
PART 1: CAPPING POLLUTION AT THE SOURCE
From: The Environment Report
Series: Pollution in the Heartland
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Nitrogen pollution from farm fields pollutes public water supplies

  • Added: Aug 09, 2006
  • Length: 04:41
Part Three: in the home
From: KUOW
Series: School Ready: changing early learning in Washington state
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Kids at home are off policy makers' radars

  • Added: Jul 05, 2006
  • Length: 06:42
Part Two: the Ratings Game
From: KUOW
Series: School Ready: changing early learning in Washington state
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Childcare funding structure is broken

  • Added: Jul 05, 2006
  • Length: 06:11
Part One: the case for change
From: KUOW
Series: School Ready: changing early learning in Washington state
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the state and private funders are poised for change

  • Added: Jul 05, 2006
  • Length: 06:12
Class of 2006: Part 3
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
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How a student who nearly didn't make it out of 10th grade, graduates from high school.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Class of 2006: Part 2
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
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How a student overcame poor grades to head off to high school.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 03:38
Nicholas Gillet
From: KMHD
Series: Jazz Ascona Festival 2005
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Music & Interview

  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 05:08
Freddie Cole
From: KMHD
Series: Jazz Ascona Festival 2005
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Interview & Music

  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 05:33
Ascona Overview Short
From: KMHD
Series: Jazz Ascona Festival 2005
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Overview of 2005 Ascona Jazz Festival

  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:23
Duffy Jackson
From: KMHD
Series: Jazz Ascona Festival 2005
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Interview and music

  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 05:12
Warren Vache
From: KMHD
Series: Jazz Ascona Festival 2005
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Interview and music

  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 05:08
Going Public Part V
From: KUOW
Series: Going Public
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A look at the artists that have moved to Seattle.

  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 07:20
Going Public Part IV
From: KUOW
Series: Going Public
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A look at the forthcoming Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle

  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 07:00
Going Public Part III
From: KUOW
Series: Going Public
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Why artists choose to work in the streets and not the studio

  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 07:00
Going Public Part II
From: KUOW
Series: Going Public
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A look at the history of Seattle's pioneering public art program

  • Added: May 15, 2006
  • Length: 07:00