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Nature Profile: The Sky as Blue Kool-Aid
From: The Environment Report
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Nature Profile #4: Seeing the sky as blue kool-aid with salt

  • Added: Jun 26, 2007
  • Length: 02:57
Live and Learn
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KGOU


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Out
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Politicians are always talking about the brain drain of talented students from their state. Alaska is no different.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 09, 2007
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Crossing East Music Featre: Violinist Aishu Venkataraman
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Crossing East - Asian American History series
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Profile of 13-year-old prodigy and her musician family

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 08, 2007
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
Will Nebraska Skate Parks Reopen?
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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Many Nebraska skateboarders feel under siege since several public skate parks were closed this fall. Two national experts as well as a Nebraska st...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2007
  • Length: 11:32
Youth Vote
From: Justin Levy
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A look at young people's attitudes toward voting.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2006
  • Length: 03:30
Young at War
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by WBEZ, KUNM, KWCW, Raven Radio, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Part 1: Welcome to Western Guilford
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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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


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
Part 2: Freshman Academy
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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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


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 3
Part 3: The Home Team
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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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


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 07:59
  • Purchases: 3
Part 4: What Are Kids Learning?
From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School
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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


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:07
  • Purchases: 4
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
Students' Rights: Then and Now
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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In 1969 the Supreme Court found that students "do not shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate." Today, most schools retain the r...

Bought by KUOW, WXLV-FM, KOOP, WXLV-FM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 5
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
Annual Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry
From: KRCC-FM
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A festival of testicles!

Bought by KISU, KISU, Prairie Public, and KOTO


  • Added: Mar 17, 2006
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 4
Youth Flight On Long Island
From: Brian Drew
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A look at the Brain Drain on Long Island

  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Road Trip: Local Kids Help with Hurricane Relief
From: KRCC-FM
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Springs kids head to Louisiana to help clean up

  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 10:23
From New Orleans To New England
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Responds to Hurricane Katrina
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After living their whole lives in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, teenagers Tyrel and Tevin Wooten are starting life over at their new hom...

Bought by YouthCast and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Oct 27, 2005
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 2
Katrina, Race, and High School
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Blunt Responds to Hurricane Katrina
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Hurricane Katrina stirred up a national dialogue about racial inequality and prompted Blunt's Bly Lauritano-Werner to take a look at some of the di...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, PRX Remix, KSFR, KTNA and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 6

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