PRX - Pieces for Topic: Education

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

61 results


Piece image
Dr. Holly Golecki, a professor in the Bioengineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about using soft robotics ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2023
  • Length: 48:22
Caption: Photo of Amy Pirzada inside her business My Coding Place in Austin, Texas., Credit: Pios Labs
Amy Pirzada started My Coding Place as an educational business focused on teaching coding to kids in Austin. But she soon expanded to teach chess, ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 39:26
Caption: Physics Circus presenters light up a pickle with electricity., Credit: The Physics Circus
The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin tries to attract kids to science using loud and entertaining demonstrations that might not ...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:29
Caption: Tanya Dimitrova, founder of Science Journal for Kids, Credit: Courtesy of Tanya Dimitrova
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 48:59
Piece image
Incubating the Extraordinary with Turtle River Montessori Head of School Bubli Dandiya. A Holistic approach to educating, Enriching and helping to ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2021
  • Length: 25:18
Caption: Screenshot of the game RoboCo., Credit: Filament Games
Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament G...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2021
  • Length: 51:41
Piece image
Therapeutic Horseback Riding, and Equine Assisted Therapies with Dream Catcher Executive Director Nancy Williams. Scientific research has proven wh...

Bought by WCNY and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 28:43
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Richard Rusczyk, from Art of Problem Solving
Math is fundamental to engineering education and other disciplines. That’s part of why Richard Rusczyk wants to teach kids harder math than they o...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:36
Caption: Two books on 3D Printing by David Seto and Michael Welch.
Kids can learn CAD for 3D printing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be a hassle. David Seto and Michael Welch wrote a set of books to make teachin...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 49:38
Caption: Rosemary Kamei of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation., Credit: Silicon Valley Education Foundation
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...

  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 35:39
Piece image
STEM curriculum specialist Dr. Corey Hall shares tips and resources for teaching engineering effectively at the K-12 level in 2021, both during and...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 45:50
Piece image
Model railroading is uniquely primed for doing educational outreach today, says Stacey Walthers Naffah, President of Milwaukee-based Walthers. Wal...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2020
  • Length: 46:32
Piece image
The nonprofit Beyond Benign specializes in developing and disseminating educational resources in green chemistry – like how to create bioplastics, ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 51:47
Piece image
As a biomedical engineer in orthobiologics, Neil Thompson still had to do a lot of public speaking. He was a self-professed awful public speaker, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 31:48
Piece image
Distributed systems rule much of new technology today, as software programs exist across multiple computers, servers, phones, and smart devices. Ho...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 27:55

  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:35
Piece image
Marshall Escamilla is part of a team of podcasters who create Tumble, a science podcast for kids and their families. With a background in music and...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 39:29
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
How can we deal with data better? How can we teach kids to deal with data better? Sarah Morris from the nonprofit Nuclear Learning Network has some...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 25:06
Piece image
In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WHFR and WCPN


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WHFR, KWMR, WMUU-LP, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Piece image
In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the heated debate over charters.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the debate over charters, examine new ways school distric...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
Piece image
In the final episode of our special series on education and inequality, we dive deep into the heated debate over charters.

Bought by WJCT, KMUN, WVAS, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Piece image
From mandatory testing to terrible pay, teachers face formidable obstacles to doing their job and doing it well. We look into the reasons teachers ...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2