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A conversation with Russell Rumberger, author of Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of School and What Can be Done About It.

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 50:19
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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The peculiar thing about the News is that very often events of senseless tragedy and despair are juxtaposed with News of hope and compassion. Some...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:17
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Michigan parents who have seen the YouTube video of seventh-grade boys harassing an elderly school bus monitor in New York ma...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: Charles Lewis, Jr and his mother during his sentencing hearing, Credit: mlive.com
The anatomy of a sentencing hearing for a juvenile in Michigan facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. Charles Lewis, Jr was 13 wh...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2012
  • Length: 17:14
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Caption: February 2012, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow gives a girl a dose of oral polio vaccine at an immunization site in the town of Moundou in Logone Region, Chad., Credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0062/Asselin
Actress, activist and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow speaks to podcast moderator Femi Oke about her experiences in drought-hit Chad.

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 08:45
Caption: A girl rests in a UNICEF-supported nutrition centre in Koubigou, a camp for persons displaced by conflict, near the town of Goz Beïda, in the eastern Sila Region., Credit: UNICEF/NYHQ2012-2512/Esteve
As the hunger season begins in the Sahel region of Africa, UNICEF is launching a massive fund-raising campaign to help the more than 1 million chil...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:13
Caption: Whitney Young HS Slam Poetry Team
To Save a Monster is a team piece performed by the poets of the Whitney M. Young Magnet High School Slam Poetry Team: seniors Essie Linzy, 18, and ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:02
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This is an optional second segment, which can be added to Part 1, for a package nearing 26 mins in length. In the second segment, Tiny Spark host, ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2011
  • Length: 06:55
Caption: Somali children waiting to register for food and other aid in the Dagahaley refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. The camp is among three that comprise the Dadaab camps, located on the outskirts of the town of Dadaab in Ga, Credit: © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0999/Holt
UNICEF podcast moderator Femi Oke discusses the challenges to the start of the school year in the Horn of Africa in the midst of the drought crisis...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:20
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UNICEF Representative in Djibouti Josefa Marrato discusses how the ongoing drought has affected children in Djibouti.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:27
Caption: Young researchers during a team exercise in Georgia., Credit: UNICEF 2010/Matthew Emry
UNICEF podcast moderator Amy Costello discusses the importance of youth participation in research with Valon Kurhasani, Jafar Usmanovis and Mathew ...

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  • Added: Aug 11, 2011
  • Length: 20:25
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Caption: A girl at a UNICEF-supported school in a relief camp for people affected by the floods in Sukkur, Pakistan., Credit: © UNICEF/PAKA2010-00441/Marta Ramoneda
UNICEF Radio moderator Amy Costello speaks with Nafisa Shah and Shahnaz Wazir Ali about the challenge of achieving quality education for all in the...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 32:51
Caption: UNICEF Kenya Child Protection Specialist Zeinab Ahmed (right) speaks with Somali refugees in a camp in Dadaab, north-eastern Kenya., Credit: © UNICEF Kenya/2011/Holt
UNICEF responds as Somali refugees crowd camps in eastern Kenya amidst severe regional drought.

  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
Caption: Mr. Murdoch confuses reality with imagination like many babies do., Credit: Susan Cook
We now know that Rupert Murdoch and his "gang" have an ability to grasp the difference between the imaginary and the real similar to that of many ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2011
  • Length: 02:08
Caption: Children attend a class at the Muniki Centre Basic School in Muniki Payam, a sub-district of Juba, capital of Southern Sudan., Credit: © UNICEF/NYHQ2007-0862/Cranston
Looking to the future in Southern Sudan: Greater access to education can bring opportunities for peace and prosperity in a new nation.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:49
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UNICEF correspondent Anja Baron speaks with Chief of UNICEF’s Kadugli Field Office, Soledad Herrero, about the situation in the Sudanese region 10 ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:13
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(To air the week of June 18,2011) According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
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(To air the week of June 11, 2011). An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
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(For air the week of June 11, 2011) Stop at a red light in Mexico and chances are young children will approach your car selling food, trinkets, or ...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
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UNICEF Radio moderator Amy Costello speaks with Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead Maguire about the importance of education in the peace-building pr...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 08:15
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3 June 2011 - UNICEF Chief of Child Protection in Côte d’Ivoire Laetitia Bazzi discusses the organization’s response to helping separated children ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 03:16
Caption: A boy walks in the rubble of his former, UNICEF-supported temporary school at the Shousha transit camp on the Tunisia-Libya border., Credit: © UNICEF Tunisia/2011/Luckman
27 May 2011: UNICEF Representative in Tunisia Maria-Luisa Fornara talks about violence at the Shousha transit camp affecting thousands of people wh...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:43
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Okay, you're on the road in Pakistan and your car breaks down. You pull into the nearest auto garage and an eight-year old kid comes out to look u...

  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 28:00
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Americans are struggling with high unemployment rates, but in Somaliland, it's closer to 90 percent. This week, the World Vision Report takes you t...

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  • Added: May 19, 2011
  • Length: 01:50:25
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Today’s show is straight from the headlines of the May/June issue of The Chicago Reporter and their cover story on questionable gun cases that resu...

  • Added: May 06, 2011
  • Length: 50:06