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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
How do YOU talk about race? And why can it be so touchy?
- Added: Apr 14, 2012
- Length: 28:32
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
Teens in Los Angeles use live theater to battle homophobia in the classroom.
Bought by XRAY.fm, KRZA, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 06:06
- Purchases: 3
: Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 07:30
- Purchases: 1
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
Economic hard times continue in Oregon as in the nation, so could a new tax to fund the arts be approved by voters in this environment? An arts ad...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:45
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
Are you beginning to recognize that your parents are no longer able to live independently. Are they struggling with remembering people, events, dat...
- Added: Oct 01, 2011
- Length: 45:10
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
Activists gathered in Sacramento Monday as part of a weeklong demonstration against budget cuts to schools. Sixty-five protesters were arrested for...
- Added: May 16, 2011
- Length: 06:53
As the number of people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome grows, more are heading off to college.
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
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
In Washington D.C., more than a third of adults lack basic literacy skills. That's 20% higher than the national average. Emily Friedman sits in on ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 31, 2011
- Length: 03:38
- 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
A new sex education curriculum is creating a controversy in the Rocky Mountain town of Helena, Montana
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
When Wendy Kopp was a college senior she had an idea: what if some of America’s top college students chose teaching over higher-paying professional...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 09:49
Should teachers be paid based on what they teach or what their student learn? Hear Randi Weingarten's answer to this question as well as her though...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 09:38
NEA president Dennis Van Roekel talks with John Merrow about teacher evaluation; should we judge teachers based on how they teach or on what their ...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 08:40
- Purchases: 1
Deputy Superintendent Michael Haggen discusses how new programs are helping students in New Orleans' alternative schools develop a voice.
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 05:06
From the Sudan Radio Project: we visit a Sudanese Sunday school in San Leandro, California.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Apr 04, 2010
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 1
Kansas State University professors have opened a research clinic aimed at merging techniques of financial planning with couples' therapy.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 07, 2009
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
