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Rising by Degrees
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Students on their graduation day from Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland. Most young Latinos looking for a way up through higher education choose community college, but a lot of them never make it to graduation day. , Credit: Emily Hanford
Young Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and they are among the least likely to graduate from college. (11/5/2009)

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KPIP-LP, KQED, KZYX, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
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
Floating School
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: COP16 Youth Voices from Africa
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Two teenagers from western Zambia embark on a journey across the river to visit schools in the flood plain. After seeing the serious challenges stu...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Dec 19, 2010
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
Read, Read, Read!
From: Learning Matters
Series: Lessons from Haiti: Schools after the earthquake
Caption: Mackenton Louis reads to a group of kids at Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture in Port-au-Prince, Credit: Judith Scherr/Learning Matters
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
Despite Budget Cuts, Youth Meet Their Own Needs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
A Reason for the Purpose
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Maybe you know where your food comes from. But have you seen and heard about farming through a 13-year-old boy’s eyes? Colby Perron shares his thou...

Bought by KRZA and WMPG


  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2
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
SRP: A Bay Area Sudanese Cultural School
From: Sudan Radio Project
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we visit a Sudanese Sunday school in San Leandro, California.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Apr 04, 2010
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 1
Martial Arts Builds Leadership on Chicago's South Side
From: Avishay Artsy
Caption: Students practice martial arts in Chicago's South Side., Credit: Andrea Silenzi
A martial arts school in Chicago’s South Side reinforces community in a violent neighborhood.

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: Jan 14, 2010
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Go-Karting
From: WHJE
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Vroom, vroom, vroom...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:59
Sacred Fire: John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
From: Jerry Kenney
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One quiet autumn morning the United States was suddenly attacked by a small band of determined men inspired by a charismatic religious fanatic. The...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)
From: Nancy Solomon
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This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2009
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 40
Virtue-OSITY
From: WHJE
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A glimpse into the 2009 Carmel HS Marching Band

  • Added: Sep 25, 2009
  • Length: 04:37
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
Improving Islamic schools, increasing possibilities for Nepalese girls
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Improving Islamic schools, increasing possibilities for Nepalese girls

  • Added: Aug 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:06
Fashion Forward
From: WAMU
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This piece examines teens, fashion and mandatory school uniforms.

Bought by YouthCast


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 1
Graduation
From: kitty felde
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Audio portrait of everyman's graduation day.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:36
Class of 2006: Part 3
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How a student who nearly didn't make it out of 10th grade, graduates from high school.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Class of 2006: Part 2
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How a student overcame poor grades to head off to high school.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 03:38
Class of 2006: Part 1
From: KUOW
Series: Stories From the Class of 2006
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The graduation story of student Moriah Williams.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Tracking
From: Radio Rookies
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Jaimita Haskell takes listeners inside the problems of academic tracking.

Bought by YouthCast and Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:18
  • Purchases: 2
Airplane Safety or How to Teach Pre-Schoolers About Death
From: Michael Kraskin
Series: Catalogue of Ships
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How to teach pre-school children about death.

Bought by PRX to iTunes and Remix Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2006
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 2
New York City's 8th Annual Teen Poetry Slam, Hosted by Urban Word
From: WFUV
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interviews and orations by the New York City poetry scene's newest and youngest voices.

Bought by KRUA


  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 1
Freshmen Formations: James Hannaway
From: Terin Mayer
Series: Carleton Audio Portraits
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Audio portrait of "idealistic college student" James Hannaway, Carleton Class of 2009

  • Added: Nov 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:16