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Solar Energy
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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This time on The Children's Hour we explore the most inexpensive energy source in the world: solar power, in a show recorded live at the Solar Fies...

Bought by KECG, KMXT, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221003: Solar Energy, 10/3/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we explore the most inexpensive energy source in the world: solar power, in a show recorded live at the Solar Fies...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Top of Mind - Cherokee Language, Rent Control, Praising Kids
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1: Will the Cherokee Language Survive? Topic 2: Rent Control—Help or Harm? Topic 3: You and I and Our Relationship

Bought by KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 11, 2021
  • Length: 51:46
  • Purchases: 5
Anti-Racist Kids
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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The kids learn about racism, being anti-racist, and they find out what a state Attorney General does.

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Mastering The Rubik's Cube
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: Julia Megofna performing on The Children's Hour, Credit: Andrew Stone
Kids teach us how to solve Rubik's Cubes in under 30 seconds, and we hear from talented young performers

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, KMXT, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
Radio Astronomy
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: The Very Large Array, Credit: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Learn about radio astronomy at the Very Large Array, the most precise radio telescope in the world

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, WCNY and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 7
Wilderness Kids
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: South Valley Academy 8th Graders & Teacher Jen Chavez Miller, Credit: Katie Stone
Albuquerque 8th graders get a life changing wilderness education, and Kids Crewmember Julia interviews author Kwame Alexander

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, and WCNY


  • Added: May 24, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Wild Friends And Running Medicine
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Caption: Running Medicine kids in the studio
We learn the outcome of the Wild Friends of New Mexico's legislative effort, and we talk with kids from Running Medicine

Bought by KQRU FM LP, WLRH, WXPR, and WCNY


  • Added: Apr 08, 2019
  • Length: 56:50
  • Purchases: 4
Alex not Amy-Growing up transgender in the rural West
From: Denise Dowling
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A 10-year-old boy's journey to legally and socially change his gender in his hometown in the Rocky Mountain West.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Wyoming Public Radio, Boise State Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
World in Progress 05/17/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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On this week's show, it's all about education. We hear from a former inmate in Kenya who studied law while in prison and now helps others getting ...

  • Added: May 16, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
California Dream, Undocumented
From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here
Caption: Laura Aguilar at grad school, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio
More than 3 million unauthorized immigrants live in California. This one-hour documentary tells stories of three immigrants from Mexico: a working ...

Bought by KQED, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KPBS, KVSC, KCBX and more


  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
Episode 19 - Ribblestrop
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Jack, Carolina, and Eleanor at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, New Jersey
Americans have a romanticized image of English boarding schools. RIBBLESTROP is the opposite of that. Writer Andy Mulligan has created what must be...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 22:04
Createch connects kids to learning
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:26
Sister Giovanni and the Guadalupe Alternative Programs
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we head to South Saint Paul to learn about the legacy a nun named Sister Giovanni - lovingly referred to as Sist...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 31:06
School's Out: The Decimation of Public Education
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this edition of Making Contact we'll explore how the privatization of public education is playing out across the country and how students and te...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:59
For Some Students, Just Showing Up = Success
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
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Educators at one Brooklyn high school focus on getting their at-risk students across the threshold of the building. Sounds simple, right? Think again.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WABE, and WNIJ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 3
Chemistry Magic
From: With Good Reason
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In mid-May, more than 1500 high school students competed in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The winning projects included a p...

Bought by Radio Newark, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
School Nurse Layoffs Endanger Students' Safety
From: On Blast
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Apparently, students' safety is the latest casualty of Governor Corbett's education budget cuts.

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
Click it or Ticket
From: Silly Billy
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Atlanta's law enforcement is cracking down on people who decide to not put on their seat belt.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: :30
Building Prison Beds Based On Third Graders' Test Scores
From: On Blast
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It has been said that you can predict the prison population by looking at how many third graders perform poorly on standardized tests.

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Schooled: Teens' Stories About American Public Education
From: KUOW
Series: Curated Youth Radio Programs from KUOW and Generation PRX
Caption: Claudia Villa with her high school diploma
Teens talk about standards, inequality, and getting out of public high school in America. Schooled is one hour of some of the best youth radio st...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, KMXT, KGOU, WSKG and more


  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 55:59
  • Purchases: 32
awesome homework
From: Jacob Brown
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A quick tour around my school to find students' true feelings on homework

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:44
Sexy stalk eyed Flies
From: Paula Kahumbu
Series: The Amazing World of African Insects
Caption: Stalk eyed Fly, Credit: Dino Martins
Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins explains why widely spaced eyes are so sexy - that is if you are a stalk eyed fly. On another dudu safari in Kenya.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: :54
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
WWOZ Street Talk- The Kid Camera Project
From: David Weinberg
Series: WWOZ- Street Talk
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The kid camera project started with a single family in the ninth ward and some donated disposable cameras.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2008
  • Length: 05:25