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Measure What Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J.M. Beach
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Arts Education: Helping Students Move Forward
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Space Messengers Project
Arts Education and its singular role as students begin another Covid-impacted school year with Ayanna Hudson, director of Arts Education at the Nat...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RADIOLEX, Spokane Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 4
The Complicated Debate Around New York City's Specialized High Schools
From: Katie Anastas
Caption: Teens Take Charge press officers Ayana Smith and Sophie Mode at a press conference on May 17, 2019., Credit: Teens Take Charge Instagram
New York City has been trying to improve diversity in its schools for years. But lawmakers, parents, teachers and students disagree about how to do...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 26:40
Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Monique W. Morris
In grade school and high school, back girls make up about 16% of the female student population. Yet, of all girls referred to law enforcement in ou...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
America's Bilingual Future
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
Caption: PRX default Piece image
With changes in schooling to add more bilingual education and the fact that the United States is getting more diverse, American future is bilingual.

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


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
When Grit Isn't Enough
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Linda Nathan
There’s a long held assumption that college access is available to anyone and everyone. All they have to have is fortitude and a big dream. In othe...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 09, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Common Sense for Our Common Good
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jim Baumann
What we do for our children today will have a major impact on the future of democracy.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Can Schools And Students Learn From Each Other?
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Podcasts
Caption: RadioActive hosts Paul Kiefer and Hassan Abdi., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/JENNY ASARNOW
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 12:12
How My Bookworm Sister Left Our Refugee Camp
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
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In the United States, we take the right to get an education for granted but that's not the case for many refugees. RadioActive's Faisa Muse brings ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
I Was An Unlikely Homeschooled Student
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media Features
Caption: Elinor Jones Toutant at the RadioActive Community Listening Party., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/COLLEEN MCDEVITT
Elinor Jones Toutant was homeschooled for most of her education, even though her family isn't one you'd expect to make that choice.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:03
Girls Who Code
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Reshma Saujani
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
STEM for Girls
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Campus Confidential
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacques Berlinerblau
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Unified Sports: Developmentally Disabled Kids are the Winners
From: Barb Seaman
Caption: Coach Dani Allen
Developmentally disabled kids play right along with their typically developing peers on this new basketball team, started by their former Special E...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:39
Language at the Speed of Sight
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark Seidenberg
An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Monique W. Morris
Black girls make up for more than one-third of all girls with school related arrests. Yet, they comprise just 16-percent of female students.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spy Hop teaches the next generation of digital artists
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sam Highsmith and Gabby Huggins from Spy Hop, Credit: Courtesy of Spy Hop
Spy Hop's executive director Kasandra VerBrugghen shares the story of Utah's award-winning youth media arts program.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Despite the Best Intentions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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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
The Idea Of A Better Future Keeps Teen Mom Going
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Reporter Walter Stanton, Credit: Courtesy of KUOW
Gabby Saechao was in her first year of college when she heard those two dreaded words: “You’re pregnant.”

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
Teacher With A Calling
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: World History Teacher Andy Giron, Credit: Hassan Abdi
To many there’s an occupation, to some there’s a career and to a few there’s a passion. Hassan Abdi has the story of a teacher who is amongst the f...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:27
Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
Restoring Opportunity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Restoring Opportunity jacket cover, Credit: Harvard Education Press
Americans see education as the primary social institution for achieving the goal of equality and opportunity. While there are sharp disagreements o...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Stubborn Roots
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Department of Education logo
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 14:46
Growing with Oysters
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Using shellfish to build confidence in middle schoolers.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, KUT, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 7
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