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Markeal Dickey reflects on his high school experience and offers advice to upcoming students
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Carlton Brimm learns valuable life skills in addition to formal education
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:46
High School Junior Pete Loves shares his feelings of success, defeat and perseverance in school.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:58
A class president discusses his responsibilities and motivations, and how he sets an example for younger peers.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:58
Robert Baade is interviewed about his methods addressing diverse groups of students.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 07:43
New Mexico students express their motivations for coming to school and what drives them to graduate, in part thanks to AVID.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 04:51
In multi-year classrooms, teachers work with the same children for two years or longer. The result, according to founder and coordinator of Explora...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 18:42
Trying to entice wayward students back to class in Las Vegas, Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson led teams into communities to knock on d...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:57
Tyrese Graham remembers his first day as a teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, IL.
- Added: May 29, 2012
- Length: 02:16
- Purchases: 2
Two stories about teachers who went beyond the classroom to help their kids.
Bought by WEZU, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WTJU, and KUOW
- Added: May 01, 2012
- Length: 02:50
- Purchases: 4
This is the condensed story of Duncan Rodgers, 26, from Fairfield, Ohio. He transitions from a Marine out of high school to a Student at Miami Uni...
- Added: Apr 27, 2012
- Length: 03:36
Adriana Torres, a recent graduate of Monte Del Sol, and Max Kalyani of the Academy of Technology and the Classics (ATC), host this wonderfully inqu...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Mar 18, 2012
- Length: 29:57
- Purchases: 1
San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood has higher rates of poverty, unemployment, and violence than any other part of the city. But its...
- Added: Mar 11, 2012
- Length: 07:51
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 3
Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
Sarah Byrn, student at Susan B Anthony Middle School in Minneapolis wonders how the expression "shut up" became known as impolite. She says there's...
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 01:00
A generation ago, it was colorful clothing, but today, kids are more into shopping for specific brands. Why? Zoe Norling, a student at Susan B Anth...
- Added: May 10, 2011
- Length: 01:00
"Technology is great," says Ruth Mullin, student at Susan B. Anthony Middle School (Minneapolis). But too much texting can cause you to ignore your...
- Added: Apr 24, 2011
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 06:45
I was so lost, so bereft, I doubted my vocation. I wasn't worried about becoming a priest, I was worried about dressing myself.
- Added: Aug 30, 2010
- Length: 04:15
Keith Harris had a secret when he started school in the U.S. for the first time: he didn't know how to read and write.
Bought by WDBM, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW
- Added: Apr 07, 2010
- Length: 09:24
- Purchases: 4
A New Orleans non-profit tutors second graders in reading
- Added: Mar 29, 2010
- Length: 03:15
Sam Pearson, a former high school student in Santa Fe, NM, discusses the reasons why he dropped out of school.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 24, 2010
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 1
Journalist Dave Marcus follows an extraordinary college guidance counselor through the placement process in a NY suburb.
- Added: Feb 17, 2010
- Length: 30:31
College student worries about the cost of education.
- Added: Oct 18, 2009
- Length: 01:40
