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Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: College students in a Maryland science class. Some professors are abandoning the traditional lecture because research suggests it's not very effective, but lecture classes are still common. , Credit: Emily Hanford

Most college students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn. (9/1/2011)

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, WTIP, KZYX and more

Added: Sep 01, 2011
Length: 54:00
Purchases: 7

Tales from the South 025

From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season

Caption: Madelyn Young reads "Good Intentions"

This week's stories are about words, and the silences between sentences. Madelyn Young reaches out to one of her students, Robin Satterfield strugg...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio

Added: Jul 22, 2011
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Anorexia Nervosa

From: Jordyn Ownbey

This piece was produced to inform the US about the overwhelming number of people who suffer from eating disorders.

Added: Apr 25, 2011
Length: :30

All You Need is a Microwave

From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2010 Third Coast ShortDocs: Book Odds

Sometimes interviews take strange turns - especially when the interviewee is a nine-year-old boxer with an inventive imagination.

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix

Added: Apr 12, 2011
Length: 02:45
Purchases: 2

I Don't Know

From: Andy Mills

A child's Christmas thoughts spring into song.

Bought by KMXT, WHCP-LP Cambridge, KVNF, KMXT, KMXT and more

Added: Dec 09, 2010
Length: 04:11
Purchases: 14

That one halloween

From: Pulse of Portland Music Project

Scary music for halloween

Added: Nov 04, 2010
Length: 03:13

Anh Le's Sound Story

From: Pulse of Portland Music Project

A lovely story about a chicken and a bull.

Added: Nov 03, 2010
Length: 01:04

Paige Rawl: A peer sex educator

From: Y-Press
Series: Youth and health care

According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in every four sexually active teenagers will contract a sexually transmitted disease. The Indiana...

Added: May 05, 2010
Length: 02:53

Rapping 101: The New 'Schoolhouse Rock'

From: Alexander Mayer

Caption: Rapping 101, Credit: Yvonne Martinez

A middle school in North Hollywood, CA is expanding its music curriculum beyond the traditional orchestra, band and choir. Oakwood Secondary Schoo...

Bought by WBHM

Added: Apr 19, 2010
Length: 04:17
Purchases: 1

My Mother vs. The Streets

From: Radio Rookies

In the past, hanging out with boys has gotten Jacuyra into trouble. But as a 16-year-old who doesn't often think about the consequences of her acti...

Bought by KUT, KVNF, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, and KXOT Public Radio

Added: Apr 07, 2010
Length: 08:20
Purchases: 5

The Chernobyl Disaster

From: Radio Rookies

Rookie Reporter Irina was born in Belarus 6 years after the Chernobyl disaster. She has always seen herself as a Chernobyl victim, but the more she...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW

Added: Apr 01, 2010
Length: 08:17
Purchases: 4

I Write Because . . .

From: Jeff Deitchman

Ask people why they write and you'll hear many reasons. Here are some I hadn't expected.

Added: Feb 03, 2010
Length: 03:00

Dumpster Harvest

From: Sam Greenspan

Earthworm dumpster dives and subsists off of what so many of us unknowingly waste.

Bought by KSFR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WDBM, Vocalo.org, KUT and more

Added: Nov 18, 2009
Length: 11:16
Purchases: 8

I'm On Drugs

From: City High Radio

Priscilla, 18, documents her problems with prescription medications.

Added: May 21, 2009
Length: 04:41

Racial Hate

From: Pulse of Portland Music Project

Is it in your community?

Added: Mar 19, 2009
Length: 07:53

A Horse Named "Buckwheat"

From: Rogi Riverstone

What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

Added: Mar 05, 2009
Length: 04:30

The Joe & Lorie Show #1: "The Youth Culture"

From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Joe & Lorie Show

A weekly one-hour humorous look at life through the eyes of husband and wife Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg.

Added: Dec 30, 2008
Length: 58:32

Sex Without Condoms is the New Engagement Ring

From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?"

Caption: Youth Radio Reporter Pendarvis Harshaw., Credit: Ayesha Walker

Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw says that for a lot of his friends, the transition from having sex with a condom to sex without, is seen as a symbo...

Bought by WMNF and WMNF

Added: Dec 05, 2008
Length: 03:03
Purchases: 2

Classical Revolution

From: Nathanael Johnson

Young classical mucisians jamming in bars are drawing young audiences

Bought by WFUV and WILL

Added: Sep 17, 2008
Length: 05:19
Purchases: 2

Someone Worth Finding

From: The Tibet Connection

The unlikely story of a homeless addict who becomes a Tibetan monk

Added: Jun 30, 2008
Length: 12:53

Every Color is Somebody's Gang Color

From: Curie Youth Radio

Tan pants? Black shirt? You must be in a gang.

Bought by PRX Remix

Added: Jun 25, 2008
Length: 02:25
Purchases: 1

Pick Up 101

From: Berkeley J-School

pick-up artists on how getting lucky isn't about luck

Added: Mar 21, 2008
Length: 04:31

Trespassing and Other Crimes

From: Briana O'Higgins

11 Year-old entrepreneur.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Nov 30, 2007
Length: 06:09
Purchases: 2

Audio postcard from Costa Rica: The Search for the Red-eyed Tree frog

From: ComRadio

WPSU student intern David Klatt is in Costa Rica this semester. Recently, he ventured into the rainforest in search of the red-eyed tree-frog . . ....

Added: Oct 24, 2007
Length: 03:34

Juneau High School Football Rules!

From: Scott Burton