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Here on Earth: Language Camp (Billboard)

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders

The billboard for the "Here on Earth" program "Language Camp."

Added: Aug 11, 2008
Length: 01:00

Here on Earth: Language Camp

From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders

Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, host Jean Feraca takes you to Language C...

Added: Aug 11, 2008
Length: 52:35

Someone Worth Finding

From: The Tibet Connection

The unlikely story of a homeless addict who becomes a Tibetan monk

Added: Jun 30, 2008
Length: 12:53

Graduation

From: kitty felde

Audio portrait of everyman's graduation day.

Added: Jun 09, 2008
Length: 04:36

Desegregation in Chicago Public Schools

From: Minhal Baig

In 1980, Chicago Public Schools was placed under a desegregation consent decree. Now, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision for PICS v. Se...

Bought by WXLV-FM

Added: Aug 15, 2007
Length: 10:16
Purchases: 1

Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans (lecture)

From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum

Rafe Esquith says America's public education system has failed kids, and that is why he can't. He teaches Shakespeare to fifth graders at one of th...

Added: Jul 23, 2007
Length: 54:00

A Different Take on Life

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

On the night before graduation, seventeen year old Chad O'Neil looks at the past and thinks about the future.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: May 23, 2007
Length: 08:14
Purchases: 2

"Kill the Editor" by Kim Truong

From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007

There is an editor within each of us, and sometimes that editor needs to be killed. This poet is a student at Maine East High School (Park Ridge,...

Added: Mar 22, 2007
Length: 02:26

"Fitting in" by Team Oak Park-River Forest High School

From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007

Peer expectations in a teenage world are strong, and being confortable with who you are is a hard lesson to learn. Addressing issues of faith, gen...

Bought by Public Interactive

Added: Mar 22, 2007
Length: 02:45
Purchases: 1

Peace Talks Radio: Middle East Teen Girls Speak Their Truths (58:00/54:00/29:00)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Teen girls from Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel have been gathering each of the last several summers at the Creativity for Peace Camp in New Mexico...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, WNYC, and WFDD

Added: Jan 04, 2007
Length: 58:22
Purchases: 4

Part 1: Welcome to Western Guilford

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

We begin a series to better understand the challenges facing all high schools by looking closely at one school: Western Guilford High School in Gre...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 08:13
Purchases: 3

Part 2: Freshman Academy

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

More students drop out in the 9th grade than any other year of school. At Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, school leader...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 08:16
Purchases: 3

Part 3: The Home Team

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

A ball game at Western Guilford High School was once the "only" place to be on a Friday night. Western was the heart of a tight-knit community that...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 07:59
Purchases: 3

Part 4: What Are Kids Learning?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

Do you remember what you learned in high school? Much of what is taught stays the same, year after year, from generation to generation. Homer's Ody...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KZMU Moab Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 08:07
Purchases: 4

Part 5: What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

In Greensboro, North Carolina the textile and manufacturing industries once provided good jobs to generations of people with little or no education...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 08:02
Purchases: 3

Part 6: Tests, Tests and More Tests

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

There has been a dramatic change in education and it?s all about numbers. State and federal laws now require schools to measure just about everythi...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KPFT

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 07:54
Purchases: 4

Part 7: AP or Not AP?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

In the past five years, at Western and high schools around the country, there's been a big push to increase the number of students taking higher le...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), 90.5 WSNC, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 07:35
Purchases: 4

Part 8: The Future of Teachers

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

Schools across the country are scrambling to fill a teacher shortage. In Greensboro, North Carolina, the school system is offering new teachers fre...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KQAT

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 08:03
Purchases: 3

Part 10: The Meaning of High School

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

We conclude our series from Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. A team of reporters visited Western over the course of six months?. gettin...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 07:54
Purchases: 3

Part 9: Card #10 (Sue)

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States drop out of school. The reasons are many and each story is unique. Today, as ...

Bought by WEZU, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Added: Sep 05, 2006
Length: 08:09
Purchases: 5

Students' Rights: Then and Now

From: Blunt Youth Radio Project

In 1969 the Supreme Court found that students "do not shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate." Today, most schools retain the r...

Bought by KUOW, WXLV-FM, KOOP, WXLV-FM, and KXOT Public Radio