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Reporter Kamilah Kashanie looks into the controversy behind a statue in a historically Black neighborhood on Martha's Vineyard.

  • Added: May 30, 2019
  • Length: 10:40
Caption: John Brittain
The official subject matter of Sea Change Radio is environmental sustainability. This week, however, we are deviating from that to talk about a top...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 29:40
Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford
(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KUER, KCBX, WOSU and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: John Wilson
Many sports fans are familiar with this dilemma: do I want my team to put everything on the line to win now or would I prefer that my team take its...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Title IX protects against sexual assault and gender discrimination at universities. Celene Reynolds discusses the state of Title IX today, and how ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Poverty can persist in the same communities for generations, especially communities of color. Professor Darrick Hamilton walks through the policies...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 27:15
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As charter school debates play out at the local level, out-of-state donors are contributing millions of dollars to school board campaigns in cities...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 19:39
Caption: Rosemarie and William Alley
With drought-stricken California enjoying its wettest winter in decades, it can be easy to forget that water scarcity is among the globe's most dea...

Bought by WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Mar 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 3
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WETD, KALH, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Quick, one minute financial tips that everyone can use to live their one best financial life.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WETD, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap, Credit: Lila Cherneff
A system meant to give college students a better shot at succeeding is actually getting in the way of many, costing them time and money and taking ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, KOSU, KFCF FM, WSKG and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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Social media is very prevelant in our society today, on this episode of Culture Clique, we delve into it. On Tuesday March 15th, WSU hosted the 2nd...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 51:41
Caption: Professor Meira Levinson
This is about our kids, our future generations. Ask any grade school teacher, and they’ll tell you the job is very challenging.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Neuroscientist Todd Braver explains how and why we use cognitive control.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 12:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Featuring music inspired by bucolic nature scenes, including Pastoral symphonies by Beethoven and Vaughan Williams, and Richard Strauss’ Alpine Sym...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Zoe Weil
What’s the purpose of schooling? Reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, right? Well, our guest today begs to differ. Zoe Weil, author and the founder of ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
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Anton Treuer discusses how education and prosperity go hand in hand. Can we restructure the system to make education more equitable? Anton speculat...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 08:12
Caption: Mrs. Montini’s class reads Pete the Cat together., Credit: Ashley Cleek
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 32:54
Caption: Pedro Domingos
Data is the new science. Big data holds the answers. It’s a simple thought that acknowledges the power of data in our lives.

Bought by KVSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: School Violence, Credit: jacket cover design by Emily Osborne
More violence is committed in America than any other industrialized nation. Nowhere is that sad fact more prevalent than on our school grounds.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Political Classroom jacket, Credit: Routledge Press
When politics is polarized, so is American Society. That, in turn, makes things more difficult for educators and students. It becomes riskier for t...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Even if universities are not for profit, budgets loom large in higher education--and global markets hold revenue potential. In this episode, we loo...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 21:41
Caption: John Kuhn
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...

Bought by KVSC and KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 31:11
  • Purchases: 2