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Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) represent the interests of children remanded to state custody. Due to the opioid epidemic, CASAs have seen...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Oct 02, 2017
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
On today’s Community Report, an IU study draws parallels between states that raise the minimum wage, and decreases in incidents of child abuse and ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2017
- Length: 05:33
This week we share news and stories from two people who have been caught up in very different ways in the web of prison. Both Bresha Meadows and Pa...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 30:10
Life for students on Lake Erie's Middle Bass Island is different - starting with the morning commute to school.
Bought by WVBI-LP, WMUK, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WKSU and more
- Added: Feb 10, 2017
- Length: 04:36
- Purchases: 6
KBXE Volunteer Dan Gannon speaks with three students from Trek North High School in Bemidji about their perspectives of the Standing Rock protest a...
- Added: Jan 04, 2017
- Length: 08:46
I’m not sure how one marries the proprietary "I give the right to life” to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 06:17
According to studies performed by the Continuum of Care, there are more than 400 people experiencing homelessness in our region on any given night....
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 07:45
In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 03:14
As a result of their backgrounds of abuse and neglect, many foster children have developmental delays in early childhood. A curriculum-based day ca...
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 2
Last week the Indiana State Board of Education approved the newest round of school accountability grades for school corporations across the state. ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 06:45
This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...
Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Nearly 8% of 3rd graders report non-suicidal self injury (NSSI), with nearly 23% of teens reporting the behavior in their lifetime. Bill Latimer fi...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: :59
Nicholas Heyward Sr. remembers his son, Nicholas Jr., a 13-year-old who was playing with a toy gun when he was killed by a police officer in Brookl...
- Added: May 18, 2015
- Length: 02:40
On any given night in Minnesota, more than 4,000 youth and young adults are homeless and on their own. Avenues for Homeless Youth is a safe place t...
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 05:29
Most kids in OPB's Class of 2025 attend a school that got a major overhaul this summer. Oregon Public Broadcasting's Rob Manning checks out the cha...
- Added: Sep 26, 2014
- Length: 04:50
The story of Antoinette Tuff, a bookkeeper who was filling in at the front desk of an Atlanta Suburban elementary school of about 800 students on A...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, Aspen Public Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Jul 16, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 4
Dave DeWitt profiles a virtual teacher in North Carolina.
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 04:33
Dave DeWitt explores the many ideas floating around North Carolina on how to pay the best teachers more money.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 1
Nonverbal until age four, Temple Grandin was first diagnosed with autism at age 2. Now, so many years and hurdles later, Grandin’s success in the l...
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 02:23
An old cold case still haunts family of murdered boy.
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 05:12
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 03:47
- Purchases: 1
For kids in school, Spring Break is offering a much needed respite from the pressures of being a student. Two psychologists are working with a tech...
Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 2
An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 53:59
Mad Genius presents the latest story-song in our "2012: A Year In Your Ear" series: "The Police Made Them Hold Hands And Close Their Eyes."
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- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 04:18
