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Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired – Spring 2021
- Added: Jun 25, 2021
- Length: 07:30
A prepatory school in disheveled Newark New Jersey successfully helps young men reach their highest potential.
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:21
I'm Shawn Hughes and a student from Walter Payton College Prep. This project details, despite the success, the complications and struggles that our...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 07:15
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
My piece depicts the systemic racism that has infested the educational system and environment.
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 04:06
Segregation in Education is as bad as ever, and no end appears to be in sight. So what approaches might make a difference. What if Segregation, per...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 25, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
During the 1940s, custodians who worked for the New York Public Library often lived inside the buildings they tended. In exchange for cleaning and ...
- Added: Oct 17, 2017
- Length: 02:11
In the 1990s, Johnny Holmes was head of security at a high school in Blue Island, Illinois, located just outside of Chicago, where he met Christian...
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 02:19
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 ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 12:12
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
Kelli Bowdy, a senior at O.D. Wyatt High in Fort Worth, wants to be a nurse — she took special classes through school to make it happen. She’s plan...
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 03:17
At this time four years ago, Phantasia Chavers of Cedar Hill was struggling with her sister’s departure for college. Today, it’s Phantasia who’s ge...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 04:18
For decades, studies have shown African-American students are disciplined more often and with greater consequences than their white peers. Now, a n...
Bought by KENW, WOUB, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It ...
Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KICI Iowa City, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio, KISU and more
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 67
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"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unf...
Bought by KUHF
- Added: Dec 14, 2016
- Length: 01:48
- Purchases: 1
In a KERA American Graduate series called "The First Week," we're listening in on conversations about race. We've heard from parents and students. ...
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 04:12
Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s crunch time for high school juniors to start figuring out what’s next after graduation. Kelli Bowdy already knows what she wants to do — she w...
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 04:43
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
Dr. Christopher Emdin, associate Professor of Math, Science and Technology at Teachers College of Columbia University) speaking about his new book,...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 01:00:03
Does your race affect how you act? Well, it probably affected how you answered that question.... In this award-winning story, hear why one young ma...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 21, 2015
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
Beginning next fall, all San Francisco public schools will offer a class called Ethnic Studies. It’s a look at American history and culture from th...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 24, 2015
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 1
Blunt discusses cultural insensitivity in the digital age.
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 01:01:26
- Purchases: 1
A common topic among high schoolers when discussing the college application process and admittance is race. Listen to hear the opinions on affirmat...
- Added: Feb 20, 2015
- Length: 05:07
Emmanuel Johnson is a senior at Riverside High School in Durham, N.C. As a part of WUNC's Youth Radio Project, he reports on a changing neighborhoo...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 1
