PRX - Pieces for Topic: News
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
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
WRVG's Chuck Harris looks into how college students spend their precious sleep time.
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 05:37
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
Since the release of a biographical HBO film last year, Temple Grandin’s become even more of an unofficial spokesperson for autism.
- Added: Apr 20, 2011
- Length: 03:47
The recession is hitting a lot of people hard, and not always in obvious ways. Some of the formerly unemployed have managed to find jobs. But the p...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 08, 2011
- Length: 05:21
- Purchases: 1
More and more girls are going to school in Liberia. That’s partly because a female role model – Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - inspire...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Oct 15, 2010
- Length: 07:12
- Purchases: 1
Huffington Post blogger and former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.
- Added: Jun 30, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Two decades of war left Afghanistan’s educational system in ruins. Today, education is back on the rise, with more Afghan students enrolled than e...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 04, 2010
- Length: 04:46
- Purchases: 1
College students learn how to make corncobs into charcoal and how to spot bacteria in water using baby bottles. In January 50 students from the po...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 19, 2010
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical ne...
- Added: Mar 02, 2010
- Length: 02:01
In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical ne...
- Added: Mar 02, 2010
- Length: 02:00
A study out this week shows that joblessness among low-income workers has reached a staggering 30%. So it’s no surprise that the number of homeles...
Bought by KZYX and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 2
Dueling Docs offers 2-minute modules where listeners can find the cure for contradictory medical advice. Listeners will hear the side of health sto...
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 02:02
Huffington Post blogger and former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.
- Added: Jan 25, 2010
- Length: 01:59
It’s difficult for children in rural China to get a good education. That’s because are few and far between. Many of them have been lured by the h...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 05:31
- Purchases: 1
Across the country, kids are shaking the cobwebs out of their backpacks – and their brains -- and heading back to school. For many, the menu of wh...
- Added: Sep 04, 2009
- Length: 05:00
Tough economic times have driven up the ranks of the homeless in the U.S. The Department of Housing and Urban Development says homelessness rose 9...
- Added: Sep 04, 2009
- Length: 05:43
This year more than other years, a college degree is no guarantee of a job. Commentator Emma Jacobs of Youth Radio graduated spring 2009 from Colum...
Bought by WMNF and Topics Education
- Added: Jun 02, 2009
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 2
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 3
The first student to graduate as part of a Syracuse University full scholarship for Native American students got his degree last month.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 12, 2009
- Length: 07:22
- Purchases: 1
Joshua Tree National Park struggles against global warming, pollution, and a flat budget.
- Added: Dec 11, 2007
- Length: 07:34
- Added: Sep 14, 2007
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
