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From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101

Civics and social studies education are getting a lot of attention these days. How do we teach about our democracy?

Throwing It Out

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: "Borrowed" Podcast from Brooklyn Public Library

Caption: Borrowed, from Brooklyn Public Library, Credit: Meryl Friedman

We're talking trash at the library today. Specifically, the story of a 3,000-ton garbage barge that made a scene in Brooklyn in the 1980s… and, we ...

Bought by PRX Remix

California Innocence Project: A Bad ID Leads to Wrongful Conviction - episode 3

From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project

On this episode of the California Innocence Project, Guy Miles shares his story about a bad identification leading to wrongful conviction -- and 18...

Hang Together or Hang Separately

From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing

At the signing of the declaration of independence, Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all ha...

The Wishes of the Dead

From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation

Our lives are controlled by the invisible hand from the grave. Death does not prevent people from influencing the world with their wealth, but such...

Rewriting the Sentence: College Behind Bars

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

After an abrupt reversal 20 years ago, some prisons and colleges try to maintain college education for prisoners.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, KUER, WSKG and more

What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

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

Spare the Rod: Reforming School Discipline

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

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

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

Warrior Poets

From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

In 2009, the Portland Police Department faced down a daunting task: writing poetry.

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

Telling Our Own Stories: Wally Bowen on Creating a Democratic Media

From: Carla Seidl

Documentary on the life and work of media reform activist Wally Bowen, founder and executive director of the Mountain Area Information Network (MAI...

Terminal

From: Meghan Roguschka

A story about a place some people think of as "home."

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

Some College, No Degree: Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College, and What to Do About It

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A student picks up new job skills at the Tennessee Technology Center in Murfreesboro, a technical school where many people who have quit college go to improve their chances in an increasingly competitive economy. , Credit: Doug Strickland

37 million Americans are college dropouts. What wlll it take to get them back? (8/25/2011)

Bought by WMUU-LP, WTIP, KWIT, and NPR Illinois

Whose University?

From: Natalie Yahr

Our country is getting less public, and our universities are no exception. But what does "public" mean? And why does it matter? This surprising fo...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM

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

Jim Leach, From the National Press Club

From: Sarah Williams

Caption: Jim Leach, Credit: National Press Club

Jim Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, speaks at the National Press Club

Peace Efforts at the Rainbow Gatherings (54:00 / 59:00) [Peace Talks Radio]

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Caption: A "Welcome Home" Sign from a Rainbow Gathering

Are the annual Rainbow Gatherings, on National Forest Land each Fourth of July, just free-wheeling havens for hippies or are they serious experimen...

Bought by KUOW, KXOT Public Radio, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio

Deborah Meier

From: Learning Matters

Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education. A MacArthur Foundation ?Genius,? she founded Central Park East Elementa...