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Host Iggy Monda takes listeners inside America’s locker rooms and field houses to explore hazing in high school sports today. Through deeply person...
- Added: Apr 07, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Our guest on the show today is Tom Murray. Tom is Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project for the Alliance for Excellent Educati...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 13:20
This is a special edition of EdTech NOW, our podcast about education technology and how it’s used in the classroom.
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 10:59
How can teachers expose their students to more engineering role models? What do they do if they don’t have time to arrange visits and field trips? ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2017
- Length: 15:22
As a teacher, the first step to student learning is starting a lesson. This is an incredibly chaotic time for teachers! Hear the thinking behind th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIP-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2015
- Length: 04:28
- Purchases: 4
On this episode we will find out how a elementary school teacher and single mom, Nicole Bandy, is Making It Work and making a difference here in th...
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 25:16
More and more states are joining a movement passing laws to honor students’ bilingualism and biliteracy. In California, thousands of students have ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:40
A large majority of children in the U.S. are not reading at grade level by the time they reach fourth grade and children from low-income families a...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:28
This year 45 states and the District of Columbia are starting to use the new Common Core State Standards for English language and math. Some Latino...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:18
The new Mayor of New York is announcing plans for universal pre-K as part of a number of reforms to the local educational system, joining a handful...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:30
Public schools are largely unprepared to teach and guide Latino students. These students face some of the most critical issues in the school syste...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:16
Students of an impoverished elementary school that sits next to a waste dump near the U.S. border scored the best math grades in Mexico in a nation...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:34
In this last episode of Rachel’s series called “Outlooks", she asks kids ages 5-18 a simple, yet thought-provoking question. For students, parents,...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 03:49
Does Hollywood accurately depict high school life? Any high schooler will tell you “No”! Diamond Naga Siu embarks on her ongoing series called “THI...
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 03:18
“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
Why is the parenting phrase "go out and play, kids!" becoming endangered? Meredith Grimm wanted to ask how parents avoid both hovering and neglect ...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 35:25
- Purchases: 1
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1848, gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California. Pretty exciting right? Find out in this episode of Did This Happen?
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Did This Happen?, we are there as the golden spike connecting the transcontinental railroads is driven into the ground!
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
We take a peek back in on the Founding Fathers and see if they’ve gotten any further in their signing of the Declaration of Independence. This is t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
The Wright Brothers were adults when their careers started to soar, but what were they like as kids? That’s what we take a look at in this episode ...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...
Bought by Enchantment Radio
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
Hyman Lipman registered the first patent for a pencil with an attached eraser. Well, he did as soon as he found something to write with as we see i...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
There are several theories as to what happened to the people of The Roanoke Colony. We explore one theory in today’s episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
Legend has it that during the Napoleonic Wars, the residents of Hartlepool in England once put what they thought was a French spy on trial. We take...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
