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Maybe you can't change world affairs, but there’s lots you can do to make things better right here in the USA, no matter where you live.
Make a Di...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 02:45
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
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- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 17:28
This fall marks the 30th anniversary of one of Minnesota’s most celebrated baseball moments: the Twins’ 1991 World Series championship. But this ye...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 25, 2021
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
Since the first rail line was completed in Minnesota in 1862, the railroad has had a storied existence in the state. Fire is part of that story. KF...
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- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 07:09
- Purchases: 1
For Lincoln native Alex Pickerel, the reasons for dropping out of high school went beyond merely not liking school. A series of bad turns in his li...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:21
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school dist...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:01
One city's struggle to regain its economic footing is also tied to significant problems in its schools. Jeffrey Brown reports from Reading, Pa., as...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 10:27
Trying to entice wayward students back to class in Las Vegas, Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson led teams into communities to knock on d...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:57
Students with learning differences are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according to the National Center for Learning Dis...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
A growing number of state legislatures are using driving privileges as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school. States' laws...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:20
Hoping to stem a high school dropout crisis, one Texas superintendent is luring many students back to school by giving them a taste of college cour...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:00
Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Now, he's a sociology...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:54
Photographer and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Richard Ross has spent five years documenting juvenile detention facilities thro...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 05:46
‘Tis the season to buy and sell. We take a closer look at some of the current trends in retail online.
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 26:10
The snow has started to fall. What does the internet offer for amusement in the winter? Matisyahu, Charlie Brown, and curling in the same audio pla...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 19:42
The Winter Olympics only comes around every four years, but fans of the peculiar sport of curling can find curling content online all year round. T...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 04:46
