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America's Bilingual Future
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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With changes in schooling to add more bilingual education and the fact that the United States is getting more diverse, American future is bilingual.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
111: Drama Club Kids
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Re-live all the show tunes, melodrama and backstage gossip that is the school theater as Mortified pays tribute to the Drama Nerd. Featuring Amy Di...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:29
How a terrible teacher inspired a boy who became the wonderful Mr. Little
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Mr. Drego Little teaches a class at Rainier Scholars., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/FEVEN MEKONENN
We all remember the influential teacher who made a difference in our lives. But for Drego Little, the teacher that changed his life was the one he ...

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
How My Bookworm Sister Left Our Refugee Camp
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
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In the United States, we take the right to get an education for granted but that's not the case for many refugees. RadioActive's Faisa Muse brings ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
I Was An Unlikely Homeschooled Student
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Elinor Jones Toutant at the RadioActive Community Listening Party., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/COLLEEN MCDEVITT
Elinor Jones Toutant was homeschooled for most of her education, even though her family isn't one you'd expect to make that choice.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:03
The Importance of a Good School Nurse
From: Anne Hoffman
Series: Generation Voice
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Across the US, fewer than half of all public schools have a nurse available to kids all day, every day, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Founda...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:18
Starting Over
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Summer Soundwave
Caption: An ESL class, Credit: Sarah Dillard
Hosts Sarah Dillard and Aarti Chandorkar discuss the challenges of turning over a new leaf as we start the final week of Summer Soundwave. Travel t...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
  • Purchases: 1
Homeless Student
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: Kyra Macfarlane , Credit: Chris Otey
27,000 students in Washington state are facing homelessness. Kyra Macfarlane is one of them. She has gone from house to motel and back dozens of ti...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 2
Teacher With A Calling
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: World History Teacher Andy Giron, Credit: Hassan Abdi
To many there’s an occupation, to some there’s a career and to a few there’s a passion. Hassan Abdi has the story of a teacher who is amongst the f...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:27
Revelations In the Mudflats
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Coastal Studies for Girls is a hands-on marine science and leadership program for sophomores in high school. But for 15-year-old Laura, it’s more ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 4
Quincy Dean's Radio Diary
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Quincy Dean is trying to decide whether she should quit being home-schooled.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Someone Worth Finding: The Unlikely Journey of John Bruna
From: The Tibet Connection
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A homeless addict becomes a high school teacher...and a monk

  • Added: Sep 22, 2008
  • Length: 13:01
Someone Worth Finding
From: The Tibet Connection
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The unlikely story of a homeless addict who becomes a Tibetan monk

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 12:53
A Different Take on Life
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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On the night before graduation, seventeen year old Chad O'Neil looks at the past and thinks about the future.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 2
"Kill the Editor" by Kim Truong
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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There is an editor within each of us, and sometimes that editor needs to be killed. This poet is a student at Maine East High School (Park Ridge,...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:26
"Fitting in" by Team Oak Park-River Forest High School
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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Peer expectations in a teenage world are strong, and being confortable with who you are is a hard lesson to learn. Addressing issues of faith, gen...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Happy Accident
From: Littleglobe
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The unintentional discovery of my passion

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Aug 18, 2006
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
An Exceptional Summer
From: WSKG
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A report on the summer satellite program in Harpursville, NY for at-risk children created by a community partnership

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Aug 02, 2006
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
Hopeless in High School
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Some kids joke about dropping out, but when Sarah Smith's family started to fall apart, she saw it as her only option.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, WXLV-FM, YouthCast, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 03, 2006
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 4
Just the Facts Please, OKthx
From: Bruce Hucko
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media influence of Bush/Kerry race

  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 08:34
Dangers of the River Road
From: Bruce Hucko
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traveling highway 128 outside Moab, Utah

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1