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Caption: Slayton Goodman
Poet Slayton Goodman, 17, is a junior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing his hi...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:23
Caption: Team Kenwood Academy
This team piece is performed by Kenwood Academy’s Epic Sound, comprised of poets: Ashaki Howard, 17, a senior; Kristen Turner, 16, a junior; Rachel...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
Caption: Abdul Kadir Farah, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Abdul Kadir Farah, a Minneapolis Edison high school senior, is one of many Minneapolis high school students who collect college credit while still ...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: April Nelson, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
When you play high school volleyball, you have to learn the moves that make your team competitive. April Nelson tells us about it.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Simorra Jones, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
As you step up from one level of school to the next, there is added responsibility, Simorra Jones, a Minneapolis Edison high school student tells u...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Lee Mier, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Sarah Griefnagen, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
If there is one thing that is on the minds of every high school student, it is getting into college. Sarah Griefnagen, a student at Minneapolis Edi...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Breanna Koger (l) and Jazzmin Keys, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
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Diana's experience transferring from a school in Brooklyn to one in the Bronx.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 09:29
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Seeing a bully in a new light.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
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When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:18
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Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with ...

Bought by HowSound, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Putting a blind man's tooth in his eye enables him to see.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Don't spend the next 10 years paying off your college loans.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:26
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Students interested in radio work must get past the first, and possibly the biggest hurdle: hearing their own voice.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2010
  • Length: 01:26
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Religion vs Money

Bought by Vocalo.org and KSFR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
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That's what her mother said, changing majors, again?

Bought by WTIP and WTIP


  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:39
  • Purchases: 2
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College student worries about the cost of education.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:40

  • Added: Oct 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:04
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If given the chance would you take that environmental class in high school?

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1