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Episode 19 - Ribblestrop
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: Jack, Carolina, and Eleanor at Watchung Booksellers in Montclair, New Jersey
Americans have a romanticized image of English boarding schools. RIBBLESTROP is the opposite of that. Writer Andy Mulligan has created what must be...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 22:04
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
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
In a Bubble
From: Hillary Frank
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Four teens talk about what it's like to be quiet in school.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, Remix Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WMPG, East Village Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 8