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Kids Need the Same Teacher for More Than One Year
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Back to School stamp, Credit: iStock photo
In multi-year classrooms, teachers work with the same children for two years or longer. The result, according to founder and coordinator of Explora...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 18:42
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
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
Podcast #55: What does achieving the MDG target on water mean for schoolchildren?
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: Yupa Wahup, 5, and a classmate wash their hands at Ban Triem Early Childhood Development Centre in Ban Triem, Thailand. UNICEF provides safe water supplies, sanitation facilities and promotes hygiene education at the centre., Credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2009-2066/Estey
UNICEF podcast moderator Femi Oke speaks with Murat Sahin of UNICEF and Alexander Schratz, Executive Director of Philippines-based NGO Fit for Scho...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 12:17
  • Purchases: 1
The No Principal Principle
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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At the Reiche School, you'll never be sent to the principal's office.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 2
Podcast #48: Discussing the importance of achieving universal quality education for all children
From: UNICEF
Series: Beyond School Books
Caption: A girl attends Koulweogo Primary School in Zorgho Village in rural Ganzourgou Province in Plateau-Central Region. Burkina Faso was among the first 18 countries invited to join the Fast Track Initiative (now Global Partnership for Education) as early as Ju, Credit: UNICF Burkina Faso/2011/ Marinovitch
The Global Partnership for Education has helped more than 19 million children go to school for the first time. A campaign to renew support for thes...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 09:42
  • 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
The Last Word on Back to School
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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When the bell rings, you are supposed to be in your seat. You are now one of 27 child units in a classroom.

Bought by KZYX and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 2
Commentator Guido on Back to School
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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I was so lost, so bereft, I doubted my vocation. I wasn't worried about becoming a priest, I was worried about dressing myself.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:15
Hello Scottsville!
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
Caption: Drawings from the kids of the heinrich-Roller-Grundschule
School-To-School, Transatlantic Skype Interview

  • Added: Aug 19, 2010
  • Length: 11:00
School drop-outs (Youth radio production from western Zambia)
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: World Cup in My Village
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The World Cup in My Village youth journalists held a radio discussion to debate the reasons that young Zambians drop out of school. Tambudzai Muta...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Teachers that care (Youth radio production from western Zambia
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: World Cup in My Village
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To what degree do teachers play a role in a child’s performance at school? Are teachers the key ingredient in a school’s success or failure? Many ...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2010
  • Length: 01:47
Schools that work (Youth radio production from western Zambia)
From: michal rahfaldt
Series: World Cup in My Village
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What facilities and learning resources are necessary for a school to offer a quality education to its students? The World Cup in My Village youth j...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:42
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
Youth Voices On Peacemaking (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Bashar Jawad, Lemanja Lambert + Luke Iha of KUNM's Youth Radio Project
Elementary, Middle and High School students all share stories about conflicts they face everyday, how they resolve them, and ideas about how to hel...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Apr 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 4
Lindsay Ordower - "The Go Getter"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:41
Anchorage Youth Court
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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There are a group of teenagers in Anchorage trying to help other teens stay out of the court system

  • Added: Mar 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
Project Pooch -- Dogs In Juvenile Hall
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Several weeks ago I had the good fortune of seeing "If Animals Could Talk," a movie made by Jane Goodall. A segment was about The McLaren Training...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Childhood Memories
From: City High Radio
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Noa asks people, "What is your favorite memory from childhood?" She expects happy memories, but finds that most people aren't interested in talking...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 11, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 1
School on Wheels
From: Leslie Griffin
Series: Los Angeles features
Caption: school on wheels logo, Credit: www.schoolonwheels.org
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3
Learning is Natural, School is Optional
From: Deb Krumholz
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A discussion with the founder of a self-directed learning center for teens who challenges the conventional wisdom that we must all graduate from hi...

Bought by WDBM and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 2
Desegregation in Chicago Public Schools
From: Minhal Baig
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In 1980, Chicago Public Schools was placed under a desegregation consent decree. Now, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision for PICS v. Se...

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Aug 15, 2007
  • Length: 10:16
  • Purchases: 1
A Program for Progress
From: Voices of Our World
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Many of today?s youth are suffering through situations that even many adults couldn?t handle. This is especially true in America?s poor urban areas...

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Jun 02, 2006
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1
Teacher
From: Radio Rookies
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A teenage boy deals with the death of a beloved teacher.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:11