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- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
From measuring the "size of the wiggle" to monitoring a "seismic moment", Geologist Lori Dengler discusses the scientific endeavor to quantify ear...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Abby Wutzler, from Wellington New
Zealand, was vacationing in Samoa
on September 29, 2009 when she
noticed the ocean was withdrawing.
She had also ...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
In the last few years, many colleges and universities have created a new policy that bans all consensual relationships between undergraduates and f...
- Added: Apr 29, 2018
- Length: 03:04
Two young adults share opinions regarding their own former high schools' curriculums. One of the students was required to take a financial literacy...
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 03:57
Communication is key.
This segment of Shaky Ground celebrates the good work of Radio Bio Bio during a massive Chilean earthquake.
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Feb 13, 2018
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 1
An innocent woman discusses re-entering her world outside of prison. She addresses the painful time spent away from her children and new possibilit...
- Added: Jan 04, 2018
- Length: 04:56
High school students think they need to join a lot of clubs to give themselves the best shot at getting into a top school. Guidance counselors, par...
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 04:22
Today 50% of all college students are the first of their families to go to college. They carry the hopes and dreams of there families in their back...
Bought by KRZA and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 2
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
College students are paying their way through college with the help of being a DJ and making their own music.
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 03:46
On the third segment of "The Empowered Patient" pilot program -- the organic revolution has changed how we buy food, where we buy it, and our relat...
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 24:31
This week we take you to New Orleans, for stories told by legal scholars about what life's like as a legal scholar.
- Added: Jun 17, 2016
- Length: 01:00:41
Education is moving away from a more lecture style to a focus on interactivity while engaging and building relationships with students like never b...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 04:00
National education leaders are trumpeting recent increases in high school graduation rates, yet about 20 percent of kids still dropout before compl...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 04:06
Fewer reading materials in the home. Less access to camps or museums. Those are some of the reasons “summer learning loss” disproportionately affe...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 04:44
Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is known for graduating some of the best sports broadcasters in the industry. M...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 06:30
Most colleges require professors to hold office hours so students have the chance to ask for help. However, nowadays, students are less and less wi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 02:42
NO ONE LIKES A BAD GRADE, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH. HOW DOES WASHINGTON STATE RANK AMONG OTHERS IN THE COUNTRY? REPORTER SALLIE BODIE H...
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 04:04
Show dedicated toward spotlighting those individuals who turn the heartbreak of unemployment into success in securing a new job or career. Listen ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 16:30
Contrary to popular belief, regional accents are still very much a part of the American cultural landscape. Allison Quantz has the story of a Virgi...
Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and KWMR
- Added: Sep 20, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 2
For Lincoln native Alex Pickerel, the reasons for dropping out of high school went beyond merely not liking school. A series of bad turns in his li...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:21
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school dist...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:01
One city's struggle to regain its economic footing is also tied to significant problems in its schools. Jeffrey Brown reports from Reading, Pa., as...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 10:27
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
