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Lupita Espinoza can often be seen pushing a stroller up one of those steep San Francisco hills that many of us try to avoid. She can’t avoid it, th...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 09:01
Caption: Ron Krauss & Kathy DiFiore, San Francisco, CA 12/11/13, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ron Krauss and Kathy DiFiore talk turning points, making connections, and why a documentary just wasn’t going to convey the story they wanted to tell.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 16:20
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People working on bullying talk about how the culture of a school must change.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:03
Caption: Oakland Public Library children’s librarian reads at the Eastmont Social Service Agency, Credit: Holly J McDede
For many, the Eastmont Town Center in East Oakland is the go-to place to apply for food stamps, get medical coverage, find childcare, and get job a...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 06:27
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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...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 11:24
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Grammy Winner Miss Amy and Grammy Hopeful Matthew Shell.

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Stevie Evans with her students
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


  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
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Getting access to special education services can be tough. A lawsuit is currently making its way to the California courts saying that school distri...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:09
Caption: Support group meeting for foreign students and their parents at the Biblioteca Benito Juárez in Tijuana., Credit: Joel Medina
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
Caption: A drawing by the American child of deported parents in Tijuana., Credit: Beth Caldwell
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...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1
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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 ...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 2
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A one-hour magazine program with four interviews that reveal some alternative slices of America, including a travelogue of gross and strange attrac...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2012
  • Length: 46:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As public schools face repeated budget cuts, many people focus on the effects on teachers, academics, and extracurricular activities. While these a...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jaheem Herrera
Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by th...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:06
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This is an optional second segment, which can be added to Part 1, for a package nearing 26 mins in length. In the second segment, Tiny Spark host, ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
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At this New Hampshire high school, it took a professional chef to get kids to eat healthy food.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 05:34
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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...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Professor Michael Wessells of Columbia University takes us beyond war news. What are the true stresses faced by people in war zones and refugees? B...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 11:31
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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...

Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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 ...

Bought by WDSE and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Public Service Announcement on the growing problem of bullying in America.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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It's all about giving this week on the World Vision Report: giving time, talents, and resources to help others around the world. From dolls going t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Valerie Greenfeld leads Torah Yoga Tot Shabbat Program, Credit: Courtesty: Andrew Hiller
In Washington, at D.C.'s Sixth and I Synagogue, toddlers are taking their first steps, attending their first services and singing their first Jewis...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 1