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The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
Gabby Saechao was in her first year of college when she heard those two dreaded words: “You’re pregnant.”
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
A century after Armenians fled genocide in 1915, language teacher Hratch Sepetjian is fighting to keep their dialect – Western Armenian – alive in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2015
- Length: 04:09
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Across the US, fewer than half of all public schools have a nurse available to kids all day, every day, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Founda...
- Added: Apr 27, 2015
- Length: 05:18
Hosts Sarah Dillard and Aarti Chandorkar discuss the challenges of turning over a new leaf as we start the final week of Summer Soundwave. Travel t...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 16:12
- Purchases: 1
27,000 students in Washington state are facing homelessness. Kyra Macfarlane is one of them. She has gone from house to motel and back dozens of ti...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 11:37
- Purchases: 2
To many there’s an occupation, to some there’s a career and to a few there’s a passion. Hassan Abdi has the story of a teacher who is amongst the f...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 05:27
Did you know that Tukwila is the most diverse school district in the nation? So says the NYT. And Foster High School in Tukwila is celebrating its ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 15:31
Responding to our pieces with Dr. Jeff Menzise and Dr. Augustine Romero, Professor Torres-Velasquez of the Latino Education Taskforce integrates th...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 06:58
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission:
Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Dec 04, 2014
- Length: :54
- Purchases: 1
The Chicano movement changed California forever in the 1960s and 70s, and its legacy continues in the form of a Sacramento arts center for kids of ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 04:51
In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 06:16
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
On March 24, 2014, Dr. Augustine Romero of the Tucson Unified School District spoke in Albuquerque about his new book "Raza Studies: The Public Opt...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 15:52
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
Does Hollywood accurately depict high school life? Any high schooler will tell you “No”! Diamond Naga Siu embarks on her ongoing series called “THI...
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 03:18
Earth Day 2014 -- The University of Washington is participating in a national competition to conserve energy and water on campus this month. The c...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
This week on What What Why, it's almost prom season and we're examining the event's significance. Love it, hate it, go to it or don’t, but prom is ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 07:59
Americans see education as the primary social institution for achieving the goal of equality and opportunity. While there are sharp disagreements o...
- Added: Feb 02, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
Rebecca Lee has lived with a brain injury since shortly after birth. Throughout her life many people have helped her with the resulting physical a...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 3
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
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
Poet Emma Coleman, 18, wrote this piece about experiences in an Opus Dei Catholic school. Now a senior at Northside College Preparatory High School...
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 02:31
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
