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This week, we share an update from the U.S./Mexico border, as well as two more illuminating conversations from inside the Brazilian prison system. ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
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This week, we have the first of several interviews that were conducted this fall in São Paulo, Brazil. Kite Line contributor Micol Seigel was there...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:42
Caption: Familes of Fair Oaks Community School in Redwood City protest their school closure , Credit: Gloria Rangel
The growth of charter schools has led to declining enrollment at traditional public schools across California -- and in some cases to school closur...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 09, 2018
  • Length: 09:36
  • Purchases: 1
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With the immigration debate heating up once again, two Virginia professors are taking their students to ICE detention centers in an effort to bust ...

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


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 4
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Health inequalities related to obesity and cancer among Latinos in low-resource communities require interventions with a community-engaged approach...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2016
  • Length: :59
Caption: Dianna Valenzuela working on a robot., Credit: Valeria Fernandez / Radio Bilingüe
In Phoenix, Arizona, a robotics club has become a springboard for Latino students to go on to graduate from college with degrees in technology, mat...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: Dianna Valenzuela y Sergio Corral trabajan juntos en el panel de control de un robot acuático., Credit: Valeria Fernández / Radio Bilingüe
In Phoenix, Arizona, a robotics club is becoming a hotbed for Latino students, many of them low-income and some undocumented, to go on to graduate ...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: Yanaira López Sosa es una de las madres líderes del grupo del Proyecto de Liderazgo de Padres., Credit: Courtesy of Parent Leadership Project.
Sixty years after the Supreme Court banned school segregation, a report found that schools are still segregated, and New York City schools more tha...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:16
Caption: Dr. Daniel King, Dr. Francisco Guajardo, and Dr. Frances Guzman on the panel., Credit: Samuel Orozco/Radio Bilingüe
This is the second hour of the forum held in Spanish at the University of Texas - Pan American in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley. This segment ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:07
Caption: Dr. Daniel King, Dr. Francisco Guajardo, and Dr. Frances Guzman on the panel., Credit: Samuel Orozco/Radio Bilingüe
In Texas, more Latinos are enrolling into college than ever. Still, too many are dropping out of high school and ending their college education, pu...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:07
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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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Children wait at school bus stop in Foley, Alabama., Credit: Javier Aparisi/Radio Bilingüe
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
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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
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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
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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
Caption: Support group meeting for foreign students and their parents at the Biblioteca Benito Juárez in Tijuana., Credit: Joel Medina
In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
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California, Arizona, and Massachusetts have all replaced bilingual education with an English immersion model. This was supposed to help close the a...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:01
Caption: Sagnicthe Salazar , Credit: Oakland Local/EKAphotography
Gang injunctions are a controversial crime fighting tool that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last resort for comm...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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We take a look at MEDA, a program providing support and financial literacy so borrowers don’t fall into lending traps.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 15, 2009
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 2