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This segment of a community forum focuses on college costs and initiatives to make college education more affordable for students of working-class ...
Bought by KVSC and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Aug 30, 2014
- Length: 01:00:09
- Purchases: 2
A school district on the Texas border with Mexico achieved an astounding transformation that could be an example for the rest of the nation. Pharr-...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Aug 30, 2014
- Length: 01:00:07
- Purchases: 1
The costs of higher education have been transferred from the society to the student and federal policy changed from grants to loans, setting the st...
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 54:34
Most English learners in secondary school are considered Long Term English learners, meaning students who have been English learners for six-years ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 08:18
Civil rights watchdogs found the vast majority of Alabama’s school districts were asking parents to provide their children’s Social Security number...
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 54:26
Spanish-Speaking Kids Benefit from Oklahoma Pre-K - Children from low-income families, immigrant families, or who are English learners often come ...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 05:55
Extreme School Segregation. As the nation marks the 60th anniversary of Brown v. BOE, a report by UCLA’s Civil Rights Project finds that the school...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 54:25
Advocates are sounding a wake-up call about the large numbers of English Learner students who, despite many years in school up to graduation age, a...
- Added: Aug 15, 2014
- Length: 54:24
Antero Garcia (R) talks to his former student Roger Alvarez (L) who dropped out...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 4
In Oakland, California, a group of Spanish-speaking parents is learning more about the Common Core, to keep watch to make sure that it is being app...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 06:07
The Common Core Standards could bring change for English learners, but many educators have doubts about the implementation. Will this new education...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 08:35
In southern Alabama, a group of parents has accused educators in Baldwin County of applying severe punishment selectively against Latino and Africa...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 07:42
New York City will offer more than 50 new preschool spaces to four-year-olds beginning in September. Our correspondent in New York, Marco Vinicio G...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 03:55
In Arizona, there is some support for dual immersion schools, but mostly for those that serve a majority Anglo population. The schools with more La...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 06:10
More than thirteen states require children who do not demonstrate a good grasp of reading to repeat third grade. This is the first year that studen...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 05:33
Though many salute the Common Core Standards as a new method of teaching that will help students to reason better, in Florida, some experts are con...
- Added: Jun 10, 2014
- Length: 05:49
A charter school in Texas is dedicated solely to helping students who previously dropped out of school to graduate. But the state is about to close...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 06:31
In Arizona, dual language immersion programs are gaining momentum and demand among Anglo families in wealthier school districts, while dual immersi...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 1
More and more states are joining a movement passing laws to honor students’ bilingualism and biliteracy. In California, thousands of students have ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:40
A large majority of children in the U.S. are not reading at grade level by the time they reach fourth grade and children from low-income families a...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:28
This year 45 states and the District of Columbia are starting to use the new Common Core State Standards for English language and math. Some Latino...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:18
The new Mayor of New York is announcing plans for universal pre-K as part of a number of reforms to the local educational system, joining a handful...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:30
Public schools are largely unprepared to teach and guide Latino students. These students face some of the most critical issues in the school syste...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:16
Students of an impoverished elementary school that sits next to a waste dump near the U.S. border scored the best math grades in Mexico in a nation...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:34
On March 24, 2014, Dr. Augustine Romero of the Tucson Unified School District spoke in Albuquerque about his new book "Raza Studies: The Public Opt...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 15:52
