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What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
Caption: What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools
The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, but high-poverty schools face a stubborn challenge. Schools in Miami and Pasadena ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, WSKG, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Spare the Rod: Reforming School Discipline
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports
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A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WSKG, KUER, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Sound Ecology: Cetaceans
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard highlighting the wide variety of whales, porpoises and dolphins that inhabit the waters along northern California and southern Or...

Bought by KLCC, WNED Buffalo, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 4
Sound Ecology: American Dipper
From: Jessica Eden
Series: Sound Ecology
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An audio postcard about the American Dipper, highlighting some behavioral and physiological aspects of this ubiquitous songbird along rivers and st...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, Radio Newark, and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
Katchie Cartwright on Fulbright ON
From: Daris Hale
Series: Fulbright On
Caption: Katchie Cartwright
Katchie Cartwright, Ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, travels to Greece and Lebanon as a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2016
  • Length: 12:51
AGENTS OF CHANGE -- Ramona Tascoe and Abby Ginzberg Interview
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Dr, Ramona Tascoe & Abby Ginzberg, San Francisco, CA 5/5/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ramona Tascoe and Abby Ginzberg talk raised consciousness, protective armor, and being willing to die for a cause.

  • Added: May 15, 2016
  • Length: 31:09
The Living Legacy: Black Colleges in the 21st Century
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Students at Howard University graduation, class of 2015, Credit: Emily Hanford
Graduates of historically black colleges and universities helped launch the civil rights movement and built the black middle class. But after deseg...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WUFT, Georgia Public Broadcasting, WESM 91.3 FM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Guitar Legends: Paco de Lucía
From: Matthew Cochran
Series: Goes2Eleven
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Goes2Eleven continues its tribute to guitar heroes with flamenco superman Paco de Lucía. We discuss Paco’s traditional flamenco roots and his explo...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
How to Measure Learning
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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How do we measure learning? Hear neuroscientists and teachers describe how it's done in the lab and at school.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 2
Learning Defined
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Learning
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Listen to experts define learning and lead us through the types of knowledge to be gained in learning. Then hear the basic explanation of how neuro...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 10:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Path To Primary Care: Who Will Be Our Next Frontline Doctors?
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Norman Rockwell - Doctor and Doll, Credit: WikiArt Visual Encyclopedia
A half-hour, sound-rich documentary that follows a group of medical residents as they decide whether to enter the fraught field of primary care, or...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 1
What Now?
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Monthly Podcast
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The Protester is Time's 2011 "Person Of The Year." So, RadioActive hosts Bryce Ellis and Michelle Dutro chose this word of the month: 'remonstrate....

  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 15:31
In Defense of Childhood
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Kids from The Bike Shop on a Saturday ride, Credit: Used with permission from Matt Velguth
Matt Velguth runs The Bike Shop, an after-school program for low-income kids, because he wants to empower them and help them mature into independen...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:22
Determined to Graduate: 'You're Going to See Me on That Stage'
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Paula Dinh, a student at West Brooklyn Community High School, Credit: Jennifer Hsu/WNYC
It was a battle to the end for high school senior Paula Dinh. After years of skipping class and other bad habits, followed by a big push to change ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Running Stream
From: KKWE Niijii Radio
Series: Tamarac Whispers
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It’s time to go outside. Join Ranger Kelly as she takes you for a walk to a melting stream in the spring at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix
The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Yovo Song
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: friendly Togolese children, Kanté, Credit: Carla Seidl
When you visit the West African nation of Togo, you're likely to hear the "yovo song" -- a song chanted by many Togolese youth that goes: "White pe...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Paradoxes
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sift
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Paradoxes - What are they? What do they mean? How should we think about them? Experts weigh in.

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jul 08, 2011
  • Length: 36:09
  • Purchases: 1
Put to the Test
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Students take a standardized test at a high school in Greensboro, North Carolina., Credit: Billy Barnes
There’s been a dramatic change in public education over the past 10 years and it’s all about numbers. (9/6/2007)

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, NPR Illinois, WTIP, KERA and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Testing Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Teacher Joe Curtis working with a student at Hardy Elementary School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Credit: Emily Hanford
Kids need good teachers. It’s something people know instinctively. But experts disagree over how to measure teacher quality. (8/26/2010)

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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 10
Jennie Lois Windle: Tribute to My Piano Teacher
From: Elizabeth Chur
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A tribute to piano teacher Jennie Lois Windle, in music and stories.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 12:05
People Find the Drum Who Need to Find the Drum
From: Hannah Krakauer
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Powwow music brings a community of Stanford students together around one common drum.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2008
  • Length: 22:59
Put to the Test Part 5 (of 6)
From: WUNC
Series: Put to the Test (Six Part Documentary News Series)
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Series on the impact of NCLB and high stakes testing at one high school

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WMNF


  • Added: Jan 21, 2008
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 2
Thinking Outside the box in Catholic School
From: Stasia DeMarco
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One definition of an american melting pot

Bought by WDIY


  • Added: Nov 13, 2003
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1