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Malik Barrios, an 14 year old from Data High School and is a member of the New Mexico Youth Alliance. He was one of the speakers at the Martin Luth...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WEZU, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 01:08
- Purchases: 4
In 1964, more than 700 students from around the country joined organizers and locals in Mississippi to demand rights for black voters. Fifty years ...
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 06:43
Going off to college seems like the American dream for first-generation, low-income students. But not if they drop out with loads of debt a few yea...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 03:52
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
Dr. Jeff Menzise of Morgan State University's Institute for Urban Research talks with Jason Fuller of Generation Justice about education equity. In...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 14:28
Jarrell grew up never knowing his biological father and experienced homelessness after his mother divorced his stepfather. He learned to balance sc...
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 03:36
Ashley, an honors graduate from Polytechnic High School in Fort Worth, spent much of her childhood in and out of foster care. Ashley received a ful...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 05:11
Making the jump from middle to high school is one of those big moments in a kid's life. In this installment of KERA's education series Class of '17...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 02:53
Heading to high school is a challenge for any kid. There are new friends, new teachers and the normal ups and downs of being a teenager. For 15-yea...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 03:22
Bruce Larson spent his entire life in rural southern Minnesota, milking 70 Guernseys every morning and every evening. When he and wife, Mary, quit ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
Reflecting on American education over the last 60 years, New York University professor Dr. Pedro Noguera offers suggestions as to what can be done ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Internationally renowned education expert Pedro Noguera, Ph.D., discusses the impact of the 60th anniversary of Brown versus Board of Education and...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 06, 2014
- Length: 01:45
- Purchases: 1
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg with Roots Music Icon Taj Mahal. A discussion about the genesis of roots music and the music ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 11:13
James Simmons lives on the south side of Chicago. For five weeks, he was granted the opportunity to attend a summer program at Phillips Exeter Acad...
- Added: Aug 03, 2013
- Length: 08:08
We know America's dropout crisis exacts a heavy toll on America's future, but why have attempts to address it failed? Education Matters contributor...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
In his new book, professor Lawrence Blum provides insight into a rigorous high school course on race and racism.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jul 15, 2013
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Here is a peice Makalah did for Black Music Month back in June.
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 01:08
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
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
Every day in America, more than 7,000 students drop out of school. In a State of the Re:Union first, this episode combines radio drama and document...
Bought by KACU, KTSW 89.9, WEKU, KUNC & The Colorado Sound, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Sep 28, 2012
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 23
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 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
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
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
Tyrese Graham remembers his first day as a teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, IL.
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
