PRX - Pieces for Topic: Education
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The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
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
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
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
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
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...
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 14
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
Wanna buy some drugs? Correspondent Rich Fish prescribes caution when shopping for pharmaceuticals on the Internet. We'll tell you what you need to...
- Added: Oct 17, 2012
- Length: 05:00
Correspondent Rich Fish welcomes students to Bloomington with the first segment in a two-part series looking at scams that target the college-bound.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 04:51
Host Richard Fish helps keep you from getting played over the Super Bowl weekend in our weekly consumer watch dog segment.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 04:51
Our weekly consumer watch dog segment heralds the early arrival of tax season scams.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 04:59
Host Richard Fish counts down the top scams of 2011.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 05:00
Host Richard Fish counts down the top scams of 2011.
- Added: Feb 02, 2012
- Length: 05:01
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...
- Added: Apr 28, 2010
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 3
As we mark the 6th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, reporter Aaron Glantz takes us inside the war as it comes home to our communities. We f...
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
A fake city comes to life to prove that dialogue and ideas can transform a region.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Louisville Public Media, PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW and more
- Added: Aug 11, 2008
- Length: 17:51
- Purchases: 6
Amayatou Mbaye, unable to read or write French until age 14, has led a school for nearly 30 years to bring education to the street
Bought by WRVO Public Media and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Jul 04, 2008
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 2
Debt from student loans is on the rise. How some former and current students are struggling with college debt.
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KRUA, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 08, 2008
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 4
Politicians are always talking about the brain drain of talented students from their state. Alaska is no different.
Bought by WXLV-FM
- Added: May 09, 2007
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 15, 2006
- Length: 05:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 15, 2006
- Length: 05:54
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 15, 2006
- Length: 11:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 15, 2006
- Length: 05:29
- Purchases: 1
