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Anishinaabenaajimon: Disparities in Justice
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Bemidji’s Truth and Reconciliation group faces tough problems, head on. In this week’s episode of Anishinaabenaajimon: Minnesota’s Tribal Voice, An...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
A Student's Two Lives
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Teachers give academic and (most importantly) life advice to students. This is the story of a teacher, Melanie Mac, who is way out of her depth in ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2015
  • Length: 07:48
  • Purchases: 2
Spotlight @ Carleton with Izii Carter
From: Veronica Garcia
Caption: Veronica Garcia, host of Spotlight @ Carleton College
I interview different students I love at the Carleton College. Listen to Izii Carter talk about her English thesis on society and TV and much more.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 50:21
A Few Dollars Can Help Girls Stay in School. Here's How.
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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One Ethiopian woman works to remove obstacles for women pursuing an education.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
#37 MIW Jakada Imani - Director of the Center for Spiritual and Social Transformation
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Jakada Imani on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your host, this episode of Making it Work we will chat with spiritual leader Jakada Imani about the importance of the Bay Are...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 25:32
  • Purchases: 1
Stories in Rocks
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Into the Earth
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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
How to Measure Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we measure learning? Hear neuroscientists and teachers describe how it's done in the lab and at school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
Learning Defined
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Listen to experts define learning and lead us through the types of knowledge to be gained in learning. Then hear the basic explanation of how neuro...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 2
Radio Réussite 9: Comment Mieux Etudier (How to Study Better)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Teacher, librarian, and role model Catherine Talim of Kanté, Togo, gives advice on how to prepare for exams and succeed in school.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 18:37
Radio Réussite 8: Les Rôles du Genre (Gender Roles)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
We hear a male perspective on gender roles from 22-year-old Tibemoni Bakou of Nadoba, Togo.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:21
Radio Réussite 7: L'Amour Idéal et L'Egalité Genre (Love and Gender Equality)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Three junior high school girls present a skit on ideal love. Host Carla Seidl interviews a 22-year-old male student about gender equality and share...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 19:46
Radio Réussite 6: Notre Directrice, Rôle Modèle (Our (Female) School Director, Role Model)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Madame Hortense Bararmna, director of Junior High School (CEG) # 1 in Kante, Togo, speaks about her experience becoming director and the situation ...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 19:15
Radio Réussite 5: Etudiantes Ecrivaines et L'Importance de la Femme (Female Student Writers and the Importance of the Woman)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Two female high school student writers present original dialogue and poetry and speak about responsible behavior and putting off marriage.

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 20:58
Radio Réussite 4: Le Harcèlement Sexuel (Sexual Harassment)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Five junior high school students from Kante, Togo collaborate with host Carla Seidl to present skits and speak about sexual harassment in the schoo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:05
Radio Réussite 2: La Valeur de la Femme (A Woman's Worth)
From: Carla Seidl
Series: Radio Réussite (Radio Success)
Caption: Host Carla Seidl with students in Kante, Togo
Host Carla Seidl speaks with young scholar and Dankpen Prefecture beauty pageant winner Prisca Nantob about studying, sexual harassment, and a woma...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2015
  • Length: 17:34
Running Stream
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Tamarac Whispers
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It’s time to go outside. Join Ranger Kelly as she takes you for a walk to a melting stream in the spring at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Two Guys on Your Head: Praise
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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“Hey, you’re smart!” That feels good to hear, doesn’t it? Praise always feels good to hear, but not all praise motivates us to try new things, ch...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Restless Souls
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
Caption: In 1912, Abdul-Baha, leader of the Baha'i faith, visited Greenacre, a religious community in Maine founded by Sarah Farmer., Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Spiritual but not religious? Professor Leigh Schmidt uses the story of Sarah Farmer, a 19th-century visionary, to illustrate the ever-present strug...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:10
  • Purchases: 1
Art and Nationhood
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
Caption: Frederic Church, “Our Banner in the Sky” (1861)
Professor Angela Miller uses examples of portraits, landscape and genre paintings, folk art, and more to describe the intersection of American arts...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 13:58
  • Purchases: 1
Diana Diaries, Part 2: A teacher's first year in Oakland
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Diana Diaries
Caption: Student teacher Diana Arbas in her classroom
Diana, 27, is learning to lead in the classroom with the help of her Coordinating Teacher, or CT. She has felt a sense of responsibility to her stu...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:50
Diana Diaries, Part 1: A lesson in teaching from a first-time instructor
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Student teacher Diana Arbas in her classroom
This is Diana’s radio diary of her first year teaching at Oakland High in a ninth grade English class. You’ll hear what was challenging and what wa...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 11:05
Chew On This - Season 1 - Episode 3 - Freelancing and Small Business Ownership
From: Lisa Rothman
Series: Chew On This
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Our guest experts give our audience advice on how to turn your favorite hobby into your new job.

Bought by KWMR, KUT, and KALW


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 56:29
  • Purchases: 3
Independent Book Stores Speak Up for the Written Word - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 1
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Field Trip Podcast: Beach Rocks
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: MIke Smith
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:25
  • Purchases: 1