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Security and Discipline in New Orleans Charter Schools Make Many Students Feel Unsafe
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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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
StoryCorps: Johnny Holmes and Christian Picciolini
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Johnny Holmes (left) and Christian Picciolini (right)
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
How a terrible teacher inspired a boy who became the wonderful Mr. Little
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Mr. Drego Little teaches a class at Rainier Scholars., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/FEVEN MEKONENN
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 ...

Bought by Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
How My Bookworm Sister Left Our Refugee Camp
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
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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
Feeling Raced
From: Terrascope Radio
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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
Youth Radio: 'I've Never Seen Any White People' In This Park, Now I Do
From: WUNC
Series: WUNC Youth Radio
Caption: Emmanuel Johnson recording an interview., Credit: Carol Jackson
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
NYC Student Tackles the Last Test Standing Between Her and a High School Diploma
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Danielle Motindabeka in the WNYC studio
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
My Education, Uninterrupted
From: Radio Rookies
Series: Radio Rookies: McBurney YMCA 2012
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New York State has the worst high school graduation rate in the country, according to a recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education....

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Tierra Jackson and John Horan
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.

Bought by WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
  • Purchases: 3
The Dropout Dilemma
From: WXXI Rochester
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THE DROP OUT DILEMMA IS SPECIAL CONVERSATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN THE ROCHESTER AREA. THE WXXI NEWS TEAM HAS BEEN TAKING AN IN-DEPT...

Bought by NPR Illinois


  • Added: Aug 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Youth Radio Institute: Addie Malone (American Graduate)
From: WUNC
Series: American Graduate
Caption: Addie Malone
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:57
Need to Know Rochester: Black Males at Risk
From: WXXI Rochester
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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
Students Organize Around the Root Causes of School Pushout
From: On Blast
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Students all over Philadelphia are being pushed out of schools and right into the school to prison pipeline. This is happening because of the lack ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
Teenaged Angst
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Breanna Koger (l) and Jazzmin Keys, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Kady Amundson - "The Mentor"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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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
Colleston Morgan - "The Realist"
From: Learning Matters
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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
"The Perfectionist"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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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
Bayoji Akingbola - "The Victim of Circumstance"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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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
For teen in trouble, streetwise mentor makes the difference
From: WSHU
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To get kids off a path of drugs and gangs, sometimes it takes a mentor who's been there

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 3
College-Bound
From: WAMU
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College-bound WAMU Youth Voices reporter Andre knows he’s lucky to be scratching his head over a choice between schools, but the stakes are high, s...

Bought by WCSU-FM, WBEZ, WXLV-FM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, YouthCast and more


  • Added: Jul 31, 2005
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 6