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Dr. Cary Cherniss is currently the director and co-chair (with Daniel Goleman) of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organiza...
- Added: Aug 11, 2013
- Length: 34:39
Many foster children live in several homes during a short span of time. All of the disruption has been correlated to poor academic performance.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:26
As more and more businesses require employees to have at least a high-school degree, those who do not are getting left behind. In response, public ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
Of all the large and urban school districts in the in North Carolina, Guilford County has the best graduation rate. Part of the reason is a growing...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 03:52
Dave DeWitt reports on a school in Durham that is helping at-risk kids graduate from high school.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:42
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
How does violence affect students' ability to learn? That's what eighth-grader De'Qonton Davis and his classmates set out to investigate as part of...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:04
As public schools face repeated budget cuts, many people focus on the effects on teachers, academics, and extracurricular activities. While these a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
The Oakland Unified School District is in debt to the state. It owes $6 million a year until 2026 and needs every dollar it can save. But over the ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 08:09
I interviewed John Caparella, President of the award winning Venetian and Palazzo Resorts and the Sands Expo and Convention center in Las Vegas. Jo...
- Added: May 03, 2012
- Length: 56:41
If Governor Jerry Brown’s tax reform plan passes this November, CSU admissions may not suffer cuts, but state financial aid is still in danger. Gov...
- Added: Apr 22, 2012
- Length: 06:00
In the finale of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott takes us into the public square, to look at how governments must re-engage with citizens.
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 53:02
In Episode four of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks as how the digital revolution has changed how business are run.
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 53:02
In part three of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the future of heath care and medicine.
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 53:02
In episode two of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the transformation of education and science, and the emergence of knowledge-sharing an...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 53:02
In the first installment of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the media and how the industrial-age model of mass production is giving way ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 53:02
If you’ve lived in San Francisco long enough, you might have noticed that there are fewer yellow school buses crisscrossing the city. State budget ...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 05:25
It’s been two years since Masika Bermudez lost her only son Jaheem Herrera to suicide…. but the heart wrenching emotions are still raw as if he die...
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 04:00
Cobi is a Dutch nurse liiving and working in a South African township. She helps orphans getting over their Aids HIV stigma and against the violenc...
- Added: Jan 11, 2012
- Length: 10:38
Gang injunctions are a controversial crime fighting tool that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last resort for comm...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Dr. Julian Ford has a program and a grant targeted to help veterans deal with post traumatic stress syndrome. Dr. Ford's research, clinical work, a...
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 49:40
As veterans return to school to take advantage of the new GI Bill, many have found that campuses often aren’t ready to handle the administrative de...
- Added: Jun 06, 2011
- Length: 04:55
According to scientists from all over the world approximately 1 million people die of malaria every year.
The world community spends billions of d...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 07:19
- Purchases: 1
More veterans are going back to school after Congress passed the post 9/11 GI bill last year. It set aside almost $4 billion in scholarship funding...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
