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Secret's Safe
From: Pamela Griner
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There is a secret at the local elementary school...and the kids want answers.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
Making Sense: Deaf Children and the Choices Their Parents Face
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 49:59
  • Purchases: 1
S3: PalmEraMia #95
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
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Thanks for tuning in for this great episode on a social enterprise out of Miami! Our guest is Andres Restrepo, one of the founders of PalmEraMia, w...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 33:48
S3: Hip Co-Working Spaces of Bamboo Detroit- Episode #73
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Bamboo Detroit Amanda Lewan
Bamboo Detroit Update with Amanda Lewan Romy catches up with co-founder, Amanda Lewan to hear about the most recent expansion of one of Detroit's ...

  • Added: May 26, 2017
  • Length: 27:36
S3: City Girls Farm: Let the Goat Scaping Begin! Episode #70
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
Caption: Amy McIntire
City Girls Soap becomes a Farm: Let the Goat Scaping begin! Amy McIntire joins Romy for an update on the goat farm. Amy shares how the business ha...

  • Added: May 07, 2017
  • Length: 33:18
S3: Impact Crushin' - Top Six Countdown #66
From: Romy Kochan
Series: Season Three: Bonfires of Social Enterprise
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Season 3: Top Six Impact Crushin' BEhaviors

  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 13:19
Soldier Philosophers Part 2: The Morality of War
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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An army whistle-blower returns to combat during the height of the surge in Iraq, now surrounded me hostile comrades. We then look at the morality o...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 46:14
The Wishes of the Dead
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2017
  • Length: 46:43
The View from Room 205
From: WBEZ
Caption: The View from Room 205
"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It ...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KICI Iowa City, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio, KISU and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 67
TEASER: The View from Room 205
From: WBEZ
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PREVIEW THE HOUR NOW! http://www.prx.org/pieces/194893-the-view-from-room-205 "The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unf...

Bought by KUHF


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
Rewriting the Sentence: College Behind Bars
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: Rewriting the Sentence: College Behind Bars
After an abrupt reversal 20 years ago, some prisons and colleges try to maintain college education for prisoners.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, KUER, WSKG and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools
The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, but high-poverty schools face a stubborn challenge. Schools in Miami and Pasadena ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, WSKG, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Spare the Rod: Reforming School Discipline
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
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A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WSKG, KUER, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Life of the Law #78: A Revolution in a Cornfield
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: Mrs. Montini’s class reads Pete the Cat together., Credit: Ashley Cleek
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 32:54
Planet of the Apes -- Groks Science Show 2014-02-19
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dale Peterson joins us to discuss chimpanzee behavior.

Bought by 'The Sea', 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 27:44
  • Purchases: 5
The Big Test
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
Caption: Here, the kids line up outside Congress on their first day., Credit: Credit Dustin Dwyer / Michigan Radio
For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:31
A documentary on race, neighborhoods, schools, and kids in Michigan
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
Caption: State of Opportunity from Michigan Radio
If you think we live in a post-racial world…think again: statistically speaking, being born Black or Latino or Native American is associated with s...

  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 50:27
Albert Appel
From: You're U.S.
Series: You're U.S.
Caption: Detail from Albert Appel's Portrait, Credit: Painting by Emile B. Klein
In the nether regions of New Jersey is a summer camp that uses pianos and shovels to break social barriers...they've been at it since the 1960s. A...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 09:16
Infant Mortality: A special documentary
From: Michigan Radio
Series: State of Opportunity
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Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough. Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:01
Prospect Park Interview #1
From: miranda loud
Series: Park Dreams
Caption: Park Dreams Logo, Credit: Miranda Loud
Miranda Loud interviews painter Gary Dunn on the edge of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - asking him to share his ideas about the role public parks play ...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
Illegal Mail
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Series: Incarcerated Youth Speak Out
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For students locked up in Maine's Long Creek Youth Development Center passing notes is a crime... and an art form. Jacorey investigates.

Bought by The Story, KUOW, PRX Remix, KUT, and YouthCast


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 08:47
  • Purchases: 5
Ghost Schools
From: Seattle Globalist
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Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
Inside and Out
From: WBEZ
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When we run out of ways to deal with a troubled child, often that child ends up in prison. In Illinois, thousands are incarcerated every year. We i...

Bought by WKCC, WTIP, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 28, 2010
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40
Say Wot?
From: Eddy Durnan
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A reflection on English language accents in Britain and elsewhere.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, CKMO, and KVSC


  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 29:58
  • Purchases: 3