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Meet the Luddite Club, a group of library-loving, flip-phone-toting teenagers in Brooklyn who come together every week out of a shared sense that s...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 13:57
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A lot of parents are tired of telling their kids to put down the video games, and pick up the textbooks. But now, video games are part of school.

Bought by WTJU, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
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A lot of parents are tired of telling their kids to put down the video games, and pick up the textbooks. But now, video games are part of school.

Bought by KMUN, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A lot of parents are tired of telling their kids to put down the video games, and pick up the textbooks. But now, video games are part of school.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 05, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
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Many American students left for Spring Break in March 2020, and will be returning to in-person school for the first time this Fall. It sounds nice ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WORT, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Many American students left for Spring Break in March 2020, and will be returning to in-person school for the first time this Fall. It sounds nice ...

Bought by WORT, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WNED Buffalo, KEDT and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
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Many American students left for Spring Break in March 2020, and will be returning to in-person school for the first time this Fall. It sounds nice ...

Bought by WHFR, KYUK, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Many American students left for Spring Break in March 2020, and will be returning to in-person school for the first time this Fall. It sounds nice ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
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The first year of college can be stressful and disorienting, especially for shy students. But Madelynn Shell says shy freshmen who have at least on...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WPCA-LP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 13
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The first year of college can be stressful and disorienting, especially for shy students. But Madelynn Shell says shy freshmen who have at least on...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WLIW, WYAP and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
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The first year of college can be stressful and disorienting, especially for shy students. But Madelynn Shell says shy freshmen who have at least on...

Bought by KXCV, WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on the show: Changing Spaces - How internet access is changing rural lives in Tanzania. Egypt's new capital might not solve all the ...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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
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With graduation ceremonies wrapping up across the country, it’s time for that dreaded next chapter: the job hunt. But for those students scrambling...

Bought by KZYX, KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Jun 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 4
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-A program that offers industry-specific technical training for ex-convicts that’s in high demand. -Integrating schools is possible, but only if ed...

Bought by WCNY, WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 8
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Students and teachers are doing real science by measuring the shadows cast by distant objects in our solar system.

Bought by KRSC, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
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For every exasperated teacher who feels like students have become surgically attached to smartphones, a new study from the Pew Research Center conf...

  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:55
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Hundreds of students at Schools of the Sacred Heart in San Francisco are taking part in a nationwide Tech Timeout, challenging students to unplug f...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
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If you try to check email on a Seattle Public School computer, it won't let you. But if you try to watch Dave Chappelle talk about drugs, it will. ...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 06:51
Caption: Polytechnic High School students, Credit: Christina Ulsh
Teenagers are heavy users of social media that keeps their thoughts, actions, and whereabouts private, a stark reversal from five years ago when th...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
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In Aroostook County, life still revolves around the potato harvest even though few family potato farms are left.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:16
Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith
Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A generational discussion about 'tinkering' over the decades.

  • Added: May 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Civil rights activist Bob Moses famously helped organize a voter registration drive in Mississippi that changed the political landscape for the bla...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, and KVLU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Writers of science fiction have long predicted a time when computers could engage humans in two-way communication, from R2D2 to the sinister Hal 90...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1