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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
"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
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 23, 2014
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 1
To be black and male in America carries with it a certain baggage. Two out of three black male students in Rochester are failing to graduate. "Need...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 27:10
Once a refugee family has been here for a while, the children often become ambassadors to the outside world. It's the kids who have to translate fo...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 23, 2012
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 1
University of Tennessee graduate Kady Amundson’s days rarely end when school is over. At the start of her Teach for America assignment, her school ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 06:16
Meet Harvard graduate Colleston Morgan. His first two years as a Teach for America teacher were highly successful. So why did he leave the classro...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
She graduated from Princeton. She enrolled in Teach for America, worked hard and really wanted to be a role model. So why didn’t this teacher get t...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:47
Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:11
Deputy Superintendent Michael Haggen discusses how new programs are helping students in New Orleans' alternative schools develop a voice.
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 05:06
Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 07:30
This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...
Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more
- Added: Sep 26, 2009
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 40
Kiah profiles her high school principal Earl Pappy
Bought by WXLV-FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2007
- Length: 07:37
- Purchases: 1