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Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 19:25
Different doesn't mean bad, and there isn't one "normal way" of being. Autism is one of those ways that brains connect and interact with the world ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 30:10
Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 14:21
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Season 1, Episode 10
Asha Lane, a senior at one of New Orleans' high schools (all of which are charter schools) investigates why security and disc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:26
- Purchases: 1
In grade school and high school, back girls make up about 16% of the female student population. Yet, of all girls referred to law enforcement in ou...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s a long held assumption that college access is available to anyone and everyone. All they have to have is fortitude and a big dream. In othe...
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- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Youth Radio's Billy Cruz enjoys producing films as his way to express himself artistically, but his high school didn't see his films as art.
- Added: Aug 19, 2015
- Length: 01:03
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A profile of Jubilee Leadership Academy, an organization reaching out to troubled teen boys.
- Added: Sep 24, 2014
- Length: 08:50
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Americans see education as the primary social institution for achieving the goal of equality and opportunity. While there are sharp disagreements o...
- Added: Feb 02, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
The program features the voices of author, Tobias Wolff, along with a great cast of writers and thinkers: Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, T.C. Boyle...
Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:49
- Purchases: 5
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 3
In an ESL class, everyone is new to the country. They're learning a new language, new customs... But what's it like to learn English in a class whe...
- Added: Jun 02, 2010
- Length: 06:49
When Wendy Kopp was a college senior she had an idea: what if some of America’s top college students chose teaching over higher-paying professional...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 09:49
Like a lot of high school seniors, Mayra Jimenez is weighing her options after graduation, and hoping to be college bound but not broke.
Bought by KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Michigan Radio Economy Special
- Added: Jun 02, 2009
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 3
The newest, hottest idea in school reform seems to be paying students to learn. Is it a good idea, or a way to avoid tackling the tough issues? We ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2008
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 31, 2008
- Length: 05:09
- Purchases: 1
