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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
I hate high fives and have only tried to high five one person as an adult. It was Denzel Washington. He wasn't really into it.
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 06:16
Learn how Open Educational Resources (OERs) can make college textbooks free, as well as change the way students learn and engage with their curricu...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Jul 14, 2015
- Length: 54:52
- 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
Geologist Phil Skemer gets to crush rocks for a living. Find out how and why he and his team build instruments that can mimic conditions deep insid...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: 12:55
- Purchases: 1
This is the fastest moving real estate on the entire East Coast, and behind the sandy shores of these Virginia Barrier Islands is the purest ocean...
- Added: May 29, 2015
- Length: 27:16
K.K. Ramachandra Pulavar and his family continue the ancient tradition of shadow puppetry in Kerala, India.
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 22:46
A bell tower without a carillon is like a throat without a voice box. Utterly mute. This story could be called the mystery of the missing bells and...
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 27:33
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
How well do you understand what the cops say when they arrest you? We interview forensic linguist Dr. Aneta Pavlenko. She testified at the trial of...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 08:59
More violence is committed in America than any other industrialized nation. Nowhere is that sad fact more prevalent than on our school grounds.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When politics is polarized, so is American Society. That, in turn, makes things more difficult for educators and students. It becomes riskier for t...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KCBX
- Added: Feb 03, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
How good food and good data improves student success. The female founders of Revolution Foods and Beyond 12.
Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and WYAP
- Added: Jan 29, 2015
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 3
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
Sixteen year old Ifrah Abshir had a rocky start with computer science, but she eventually fell in love with it. The tech industry has been trying t...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 05:33
The first Simmer episode features an interview with Malawi Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and songwriter Dr. Jack Allison and an investigation of t...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
"The Rainbow or the Stick?: Teaching and Discipline Across Cultures" features interviews with Renee Owen, director of the Rainbow Mountain Childre...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The third Simmer episode features the first part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories" introduced by anecdotes about democracy from Seidl's ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
The final episode in the Simmer series combines interview with El Salvadorian immigrants in Asheville, NC, cultural reflections from Robert Kohls' ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
Early career academic faculty members from research institutions talk about their experiences with making their research open to the public.
Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Dec 17, 2014
- Length: 52:38
- Purchases: 1
