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More than half of all American adults have received a COVID-19 vaccine. But even though we’ve made great strides in our vaccination efforts, there ...
- Added: Jul 08, 2021
- Length: 03:27
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
Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:26
Every year, over the course of a weekend, San Francisco’s Civic Center is transformed into a giant playground.
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 06:59
Oakland schools have a dropout rate that’s higher than the state average. So, the district made solving the problem a priority. Officials started t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 06:18
I am in a lab tucked away in the basement of a Stanford University engineering building. Bioengineering professor Manu Prakash is showing me a tiny...
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- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 07:09
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With the start of a new school year, families all around San Francisco are sending their children off with hopes for a good year and a bright futur...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 04:00
Nearly one in ten children in California have a parent in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to find numbers for individual cities. Experts...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 05:37
Every time news of another school shooting hits the headlines, so does the debate about how to keep children safe. After the shootings at Sandy Hoo...
- Added: Oct 21, 2014
- Length: 10:14
Natasha Mahia, a student at El Dorado elementary school in Visitacion Valley, is one of ROCK’s biggest fans. ROCK stands for Real Options for City ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 04:37
Sixty years after the Supreme Court banned school segregation, a report found that schools are still segregated, and New York City schools more tha...
- Added: Sep 22, 2014
- Length: 07:16
Most English learners in secondary school are considered Long Term English learners, meaning students who have been English learners for six-years ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 08:18
Spanish-Speaking Kids Benefit from Oklahoma Pre-K - Children from low-income families, immigrant families, or who are English learners often come ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 05:55
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
The Bay Area’s cultural diversity is translated in so many different ways; you can hear it in how many languages are spoken here. For parents want...
- Added: May 20, 2014
- Length: 07:01
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 05:12
In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 03:47
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...
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- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 03:47
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A robotics competition for 9- to 14-year-olds is a sneaky way to get kids excited about science. Allison Quantz followed one team into competition ...
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- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 02:45
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(To air the week of June 18,2011)
According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...
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- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 28:00
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(To air the week of June 11, 2011). An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats...
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- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 28:00
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(For air the week of June 11, 2011) Stop at a red light in Mexico and chances are young children will approach your car selling food, trinkets, or ...
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- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 01:50:25
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Okay, you're on the road in Pakistan and your car breaks down. You pull into the nearest auto garage and an eight-year old kid comes out to look u...
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 28:00
Americans are struggling with high unemployment rates, but in Somaliland, it's closer to 90 percent.
This week, the World Vision Report takes you t...
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- Added: May 19, 2011
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Among Detroit’s many problems: a public school system so deep in debt that last year, the state took it over. Michigan’s governor hired Robert Bob...
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 08:18