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Hoping to stem a high school dropout crisis, one Texas superintendent is luring many students back to school by giving them a taste of college cour...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:00
Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Now, he's a sociology...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:54
Photographer and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Richard Ross has spent five years documenting juvenile detention facilities thro...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 05:46
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
How does violence affect students' ability to learn? That's what eighth-grader De'Qonton Davis and his classmates set out to investigate as part of...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:04
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting August 4th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the nerd host, opens with the past weeks news...
- Added: Aug 10, 2012
- Length: 54:00
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The North Carolina State Assembly is moving forward with a budget plan that includes some restoration of education funding los...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 01:45
DES MOINES, Iowa - Engineering used to be a career field that appealed mostly to boys - but that's changing. Des Moines Area Community College, Iow...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 01:09
In recent months IU students have protested the rising cost of higher education many times, once going so far as to temporarily shut down an IU Boa...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 09:19
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting June 2nd, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, the host with the glasses, opens with news of W...
- Added: Jun 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
DURHAM, N.C. - Teachers from the Teach for America program are among the best prepared for classrooms in the state, compared with other early-caree...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 01:35
The Board of Trustees at the Monroe County Community School Corporation announced plans last week to publicly protest the trend toward high-stakes ...
- Added: May 30, 2012
- Length: 08:58
CARY, N.C. - North Carolina now has a global heat map, which has nothing to do with the temperature. Rather, it shows the state's business climate ...
- Added: May 16, 2012
- Length: 01:27
The 2013- 2014 school year will mark a historic change in the academic operations of Miami University. The rising popularity of a winter session wi...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 03:38
President Obama is visiting Colorado today (Tuesday). His message is about student loans and affordability of higher education, but some are hoping...
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 01:37
A bill meant to allow Indiana public schools to teach religious theory in science class has been effectively rejected by House Speaker Brian Bosma....
- Added: Feb 16, 2012
- Length: 07:28
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting January 21st, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell opened with the news of the week, including Kodak...
- Added: Feb 04, 2012
- Length: 54:03
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting November 26th, 2011. Benjamin Rockwell opened with news regarding Chattanooga, TN's Gig...
- Added: Nov 25, 2011
- Length: 54:00
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting November 19th, 2011. Benjamin opens up as always with the computer and technology news ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2011
- Length: 54:00
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting November 5th, 2011. Benjamin opened with the computer news from the latest week, startin...
- Added: Nov 04, 2011
- Length: 54:00
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting October 29th, 2011. Benjamin Rockwell opened with a number of news articles, including t...
- Added: Oct 28, 2011
- Length: 54:00
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting October 1st, 2011. Facebook has privacy issues? Yep, and Benjamin opens up with that r...
- Added: Sep 30, 2011
- Length: 54:00
37 million Americans are college dropouts. What wlll it take to get them back? (8/25/2011)
Bought by WMUU-LP, WTIP, KWIT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 26, 2011
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Deaf people don't see better... they see differently.
Bought by KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 28, 2011
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 4
Computer Talk Radio weekly broadcast for the week starting May 21, 2011. This weeks program covers a variety of items from the weeks news in techno...
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 54:00
