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Students with learning differences are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according to the National Center for Learning Dis...
Bought by NPR Illinois
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
A growing number of state legislatures are using driving privileges as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school. States' laws...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:20
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
As part of our American Graduate focus on teachers, testing and accountability, Ray Suarez moderated a discussion with several New York public scho...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:40
Part of the American Graduate project addressing the country's high school dropout crisis, teachers across the nation have weighed in at town halls...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 11:11
Last week’s deadly shooting in an Aurora movie theater has drawn comparisons to Colorado’s other memorable tragedy, Columbine. A lot of things have...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 04:16
On April 27th, 2012, I stood on the banks of the Hudson River in NYC.. and watched Space Shuttle Enterprise make a fly-by, strapped to the back of...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 57:37
A deeper look into the recent news of the Goldwater Scholarship Award being given to Prashant Rajan, and using that as a vehicle to further explore...
- Added: Apr 26, 2012
- Length: 04:05
The Foreclosure listing firm Realty Trac shows Ohio had the 11th highest rate of home foreclosures in the country in 2011. And nowhere were the num...
- Added: Apr 02, 2012
- Length: 03:18
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2012
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
The Reagan Centennial Year is officially over...but the invocation of Ronald Reagan's name by those claiming to be his ideological soulmate and th...
- Added: Feb 06, 2012
- Length: 55:31
News and features and the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
- Added: Nov 04, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This is a documentary snapshot of the hundreds of people camped out at NYC's Zuccotti Park that attempts to go beyond simple slogans to the varying...
- Added: Oct 20, 2011
- Length: 32:50
Newspaper and Web reporter Mara Leveritt on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Japan's recent tsunami and nuclear disaster have devastated its fishing industry. Fish are at the heart of Japanese culture, yet worldwide stocks o...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Due to the high demand of energy, competitive costs, and environmental concerns, nuclear power seemed like a reasonable option. The earthquake and ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 2
Colette Lespinasse discusses pre-existing governance and human rights issues in disaster-stricken Haiti. She addresses the recent earthquake and ch...
- Added: Mar 01, 2011
- Length: 27:57
The global circulation of goods is a major source of both prosperity and carbon emissions. This short video on ethics asks: Can trade be regulated ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In Tunisia, the Jasmine Revolution showed the vulnerability of unpopular and anti-democratic regimes. Should the West support authoritarian regimes...
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 02:00
The annual announcement from the Eurasia Group of top global risks is here. Do you agree with their choice of fundamental issues for 2011?
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 02:00
A look at concerts in the Kennedy White House, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, Delmarva Public Media, WLPR , KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 08:14
- Purchases: 13
