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Water Systems with the Army Corps of Engineers

From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Problem-solving, technology, and public service all combine when you work as an engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Dr. Michael St...

Civics 101: Executive Orders

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

You may have heard of executive orders, but how about executive memoranda? Today, we talk about the different tools of executive action that the Pr...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Civics 101: The National Security Council

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

What's the purpose of the National Security Council? When was it created? Who serves on it? And why is Steve Bannon's appointment to its principals...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WYSO

Civics 101: Calling Your Congressperson

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

We're often urged to call our elected representatives to voice opinions on the issues, but what happens after that call is made? Where does the me...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Attacks on Education Hurt Democracy

From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked

Education is more than job training, says Duke University professor Priscilla Wald.

The Navigators Part 8

From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Navigators

The Navigators chronicles the Pacific Islanders voyaging across the vast Pacific Ocean in search of new islands to settle.

Finding Place in The Placelessness: A Conversation about Midwestern Literature with Justin Hamm and Christina Olson

From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity

Finding Place in the Placelessness: Justin Hamm and Christina Olson talk with assistant editor John McCarthy about their experiences as editors for...

Art and Nationhood

From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities

Caption: Frederic Church, “Our Banner in the Sky” (1861)

Professor Angela Miller uses examples of portraits, landscape and genre paintings, folk art, and more to describe the intersection of American arts...

Bought by WABE

A Year of Future Docs, in One Hour

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs

Caption: Sarah and Peter are about to begin their third year of med school., Credit: Kristin Gourlay

Throughout the school year, we've been following two bright, young, future doctors. Now, we're wrapping up the journey with a one-hour documentary ...

Bought by 90.5 WESA, KZYX, KUNM, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)

Future Docs 7: Sarah and Peter Reach a Milestone

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs

Caption: Second year medical student Sarah Rapoport grabs the mic and interviews fellow student Peter Kaminski., Credit: Kristin Gourlay

For the past school year, the series "Future Docs" has been following two Brown University medical students to see how their training is evolving w...

Future Docs 4: Flirting with Specialties, Treating Real Patients

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs

Caption: Second year medical student Sarah Rapoport, in Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School., Credit: Kristin Gourlay

We're checking in on our Future Docs, Sarah and Peter, who've nearly reached the mid-way point of their second year of medical school. Reporter Kri...

Future Docs 3: The Changing Face of Residency

From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: Future Docs

Caption: Resident Anne Kuritzky begins morning rounds on the surgical intensive care unit., Credit: Kristin Gourlay

After medical school, most doctors go through a kind of on-the-job training called residency. Residency programs have been around for a while, but ...

Diana Diaries, Part 2: A teacher's first year in Oakland

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Diana Diaries

Caption: Student teacher Diana Arbas in her classroom

Diana, 27, is learning to lead in the classroom with the help of her Coordinating Teacher, or CT. She has felt a sense of responsibility to her stu...

Diana Diaries, Part 1: A lesson in teaching from a first-time instructor

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

This is Diana’s radio diary of her first year teaching at Oakland High in a ninth grade English class. You’ll hear what was challenging and what wa...

Surgical Advances for Breast Cancer

From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update

Surgical options for breast cancer increase with early detection

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh

Is Oncology always needed for Breast Cancer?

From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update

A discussion of advances in oncology options for breast cancer and the role of early detection

Cheese by Hand visits Jasper Hill Farm

From: Michael Claypool

Cheese by Hand visits Jasper Hill Farm in Vermont

Our American Generations - Race- This I Believe essays

From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

5 generations share essays on Race from This I Believe archive

Part 1: Welcome to Western Guilford

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

We begin a series to better understand the challenges facing all high schools by looking closely at one school: Western Guilford High School in Gre...

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

Part 2: Freshman Academy

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

More students drop out in the 9th grade than any other year of school. At Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, school leader...

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

Part 3: The Home Team

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

A ball game at Western Guilford High School was once the "only" place to be on a Friday night. Western was the heart of a tight-knit community that...

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

Part 4: What Are Kids Learning?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

Do you remember what you learned in high school? Much of what is taught stays the same, year after year, from generation to generation. Homer's Ody...

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

Part 5: What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

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

Part 6: Tests, Tests and More Tests

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

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

Part 7: AP or Not AP?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

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

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