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Should Elite Universities Reinstate the SAT?
From: Open to Debate
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Many colleges during the pandemic decided to make their applications test-optional, but new research has elite colleges rethinking that policy. Tho...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KUNM, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 02, 2024
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
(Holiday Re-Air 2022-12-28) The Impact of Sitcom Abbott Elementary: Putting a Critical Eye on Public Education
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can you remember the last time when the challenges that inner city public school teachers face were the subject of a popular TV series? Abbott Elem...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, WNYE, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Coping 101: Body Image & Eating Disorder Recovery
From: C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
Series: Coping 101
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No body is exactly the same shape and size as the next. Being healthy is being able to eat and move in ways that bring you joy and purpose, with th...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 24:55
Coping 101: Addiction, Substance Use & Recovery
From: C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
Series: Coping 101
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Listen and learn as High School students in C89.5's radio class share their own questions around Addiction, Substance Use & Recovery with this mont...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 24:52
COVID-19 and Applying to College
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Blunt Youth Radio producers cover the impact COVID-19 had on the college process looking at how both high schools and colleges adapted to support t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 06:40
  • Purchases: 1
Exploring White Privilege and Preventing Violent Extremism
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, Megan Kamerick interviews Layla Saad, the author of "Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World,...

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KTOO, KFAI Minneapolis, WUFT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
The Value of a College Education
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are college graduates happier, or better prepared for life?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNYO, WDCB, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and more


  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Big Pond #25: US-American Students in German Universities
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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For some US students, escalating costs are putting college out of reach – whereas in Germany higher education is considered a right, tuition is nor...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 19:24
  • Purchases: 1
Deconstructing the College Admissions Rat Race
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What values are implicit in the American college admissions process?

Bought by KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Marijuana Community Talk: Hidden In Plain Sight
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we go to a community forum on marijuana abuse in Winona County. We also speak to substance abuse counselor Phil ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:38
Audio Revolution: The After School Special - Part 2 (Live from YxYF 2015)
From: Littleglobe
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On the evening of April 16 Youth Media Project held a live radio broadcast at Warehouse 21 in Santa Fe, New Mexico during Youth X Youth Fest 2015. ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
Considering Loneliness (59:00 / 54:00 Version)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Some researchers suggest that loneliness can be lethal in that it can have significant physical and emotional effects. When is a loner personality...

Bought by KSUT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WNIJ, WEKU, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Stressed-Out Students
From: Humankind
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Ideal for broadcast late-Summer / early- Fall, this new 1-hr. documentary from Humankind examines the epidemic of high anxiety among secondary scho...

Bought by WVTF, WSKG, KRCB 104.9, KUAF Public Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 24
IOU: Stories of Student Debt
From: Radio - Columbia College Chicago
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Is college really worth it? Student producers delve into this issue in a half-hour program about the student debt crisis. Radio Documentary student...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Invisible Americans: Stories from the New Immigrants
From: Black Swan Arts
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Invisible Americans: Stories from the New Immigrants explores the lives of immigrants through the eyes of children. “One of the values of seeing t...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, Louisville Public Media, KQED and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
'Reclaim Your Future': Vegas Aims to Change Odds for High School Dropouts
From: The National Center for Media Engagement
Series: PBS Newshour
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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
The Community Has Spoken. We Reject This Plan.
From: On Blast
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The Philadelphia School District released a plan to close schools, dismantle the school district as we know it, eliminate union jobs & and privatiz...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2012
  • Length: 04:15
Creating Nonviolent Schools and Communities: Highlights from MLK Day
From: On Blast
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How can we make schools safer without criminalizing youth? How can we confront bias violence? What kinds of restorative practices should we impleme...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
Violence prevention graduates take their lessons to the streets
From: KALW
Caption: College of Alameda staff congratulate graduates of Violence Prevention Initative Certificate Program., Credit: Nicole Jones
Shrinking school budgets and cuts to classes and staff are serious problems that will need answering, but it's gradution season, and that's cause f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
School Choice by Jerry Cruz and Allison Albrecht of Radio Arte and Y-Press
From: YouthCast
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Reporters Jerry Cruz and Allison Albrecht follow students' motivations and decision processes in finding which Chicago public school's style best f...

Bought by WGXC


  • Added: Apr 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Early Lessons
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student in a preschool classroom at River Breeze Elementary, a public school in Palatka, Florida. Preschool used to be a radical idea, but now the majority of American children go to preschool. , Credit: Stephen Smith
There’s been a quiet revolution in America’s schools over recent decades. We’ve added an extra grade to a child’s education: Preschool. (10/29/2009)

Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KPIP-LP, KMUZ and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 9
School on Wheels
From: Leslie Griffin
Series: Los Angeles features
Caption: school on wheels logo, Credit: www.schoolonwheels.org
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
A Local Texas School with a Global Focus
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Caption: Teacher Kevin Gillion gives Spanish lessons, Credit: Ruxandra Guidi
Against a backdrop of failing public schools throughout the state of Texas, there is a new program at Austin High School showing new initiative. It...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
Getting Out
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Politicians are always talking about the brain drain of talented students from their state. Alaska is no different.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 09, 2007
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Students' Rights: Then and Now
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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In 1969 the Supreme Court found that students "do not shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate." Today, most schools retain the r...

Bought by KUOW, WXLV-FM, KOOP, WXLV-FM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2006
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 5