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Most military recruits come from families of people who served. Experts say that's not sustainable.

Caption: Military and community leaders, including Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (second from left), applaud new military recruits at a "Community Salute to Service" May 11 at Waynesville, Mo. High School., Credit: Dawn Arden / U.S. Army

The military is having a tough time finding new recruits, and one factor may be its heavy reliance on families of those who’ve served.

Bought by KTEP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more

Maritime schools teach Great Lakes skills

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Students build a tugboat at The Maritime Academy of Toledo, Credit: Timothy Dubravetz

The Maritime Academy of Toledo is one of 56 schools around the country that incorporate skills like boat building and seamanship into its curriculum.

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WCPN and more

Russell Granet and Lincoln Center Education: Enriching Learning Through the Arts

From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast

Tune into our Innovate Media interview with Russell Granet of Lincoln Center Education on the importance of the arts for children and Russell's ext...

Bay Area schools put race on the syllabus

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It’s a look at American history and culture from th...

Bought by PRX Remix

How one Oakland school is getting kids to class

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

Caption: A board encouraging attendance greets students and parents as they walk into Garfield Elemantary School, Credit: Isabel Angell

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...

Social Exclusion and Bullying

From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND

Who are the kids who are left out, excluded? How does this play into bullying?

Bought by KVNO

Grafton Girls Against Bullying

From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND

Senior girls in Grafton, ND organize to mentor younger girls.

Cyberbullying

From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND

A girl and her mother talk about being bullied by internet, a school security officer talks about posing as a 14 year old online.

Anti-Bullying Remarkable Efforts.

From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND

Bullying is a complex problem with many different causes. It’s defined as aggression that is habitual and that involves a power imbalance. Today th...

Coaching Boys into Men

From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND

Coaches work to get boys out of bullying.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KVNO

Club de robótica inspira a latinos a estudiar ciencias

From: Radio Bilingue
Series: Diploma en Mano

Caption: Dianna Valenzuela y Sergio Corral trabajan juntos en el panel de control de un robot acuático., Credit: Valeria Fernández / Radio Bilingüe

In Phoenix, Arizona, a robotics club is becoming a hotbed for Latino students, many of them low-income and some undocumented, to go on to graduate ...

School Culture and Bullying

From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND

People working on bullying talk about how the culture of a school must change.

Revisiting the inner lives of teenagers with ADHD three years later

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents

In 2010, we brought you a whole show focused on ADHD and its effects. We spoke with four San Francisco teenagers living with ADHD about how they ma...

"Flowcabulary" and other lessons from a special education teacher

From: KALW

Special education is no stranger to California news. This past winter, a special education teacher in Oakland was accused of beating one of her stu...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix

Diana Diaries, Part 3: Putting ninth graders on a path to graduation in Oakland

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Diana Diaries

Caption: Student teacher Diana Arbas in her classroom

Diana Arbas has been retracing the ups and downs of teaching ninth graders at Oakland High School. In her first semester she was guided by a mentor...

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

From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Diana Diaries

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...