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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
The Pony Express was a back breaking mail route that got messages across the country in record breaking times around 1861. What important messages...
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- 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?
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- 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!
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- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
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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 ...
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- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
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There’s some debate as to whether or not Benjamin Franklin actually conducted his famous kite/electricity experiment. We explore one possibility of...
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- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:02
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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
Legend has it that the sandwich is named after John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. We see exactly how far ahead of his time John Montagu was in...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Fourteen year old, Philo T. Farnsworth, continues his work on the electric television. Apparently there was some trouble with some of the early mod...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
We’re very lucky that Philo T. Farnsworth, as a teenager, didn’t have any distractions like television to keep him from inventing…well…television. ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Signed in 1215 in England, The Magna Carta is said to have inspired many constitutional documents including the United States Constitution. Journey...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:00
In 1803, Lewis & Clark set out to trek across the Pacific Northwest to find passage to the Pacific Ocean. We are there moments after they started t...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Georges Claude is responsible for bringing the first ever neon signs to America when he sold two of them to a Packard Dealership in Los Angeles. We...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
One of Nikola Tesla’s greatest inventions was The Tesla Coil. However, even from the start, people were confused about what it did and what it was ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Abraham Lincoln has the idea for The Secret Service and he calls William P. Wood to The White House to talk about it in this week’s episode of Did ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:00
Douglas MacArthur was famous for saying, “I shall return!” Did he mean it? Find out all about it in this episode of Did This Happen?!
- Added: Aug 16, 2012
- Length: 01:02