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Many great women snagged honors this year, from athletics to movies, science and more, and we lost a few great ones too. But one gets our personal...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 03:00
The United Nations designates October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child, promoting empowerment and rights of girls to safe, educated, ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Maybe you can't change world affairs, but there’s lots you can do to make things better right here in the USA, no matter where you live.
Make a Di...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 02:45
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
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- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
We're marking Labor Day with a special episode about a group of women in Appalachia who defied stereotypes to get better living conditions for thei...
Bought by WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUHF, and KOWS
- Added: Aug 24, 2020
- Length: 54:25
- Purchases: 4
Today on Culture Clique, we learn about Conservation Corps Minnesota and Iowa, which is an AmeriCorps agency that provides opportunities for young ...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 19:35
The problem of outsourcing of education and mental health services in prisons to evangelical Christian ministries and the challenge transit violenc...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 2
Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 08, 2015
- Length: 20:21
- Purchases: 3
Life of the Law and Destination DIY team up to examine the legal grey area occupied by the sharing economy. How are cities grappling with these inc...
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 20:51
- 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
Trying to entice wayward students back to class in Las Vegas, Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson led teams into communities to knock on d...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:57
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...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:56
- Purchases: 1
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
If you’re a young person looking for a job, it looks pretty dismal out there, and it may not brighten up anytime soon. On this edition of How We Su...
Bought by WCSU-FM, WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova, and KZYX
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Spoofs have never been more popular. What makes parodies work and not work online? On this edition of the TippingPoint, we take a closer look.
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 30:37
‘Tis the season to buy and sell. We take a closer look at some of the current trends in retail online.
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 26:10
The snow has started to fall. What does the internet offer for amusement in the winter? Matisyahu, Charlie Brown, and curling in the same audio pla...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 19:42
Are mashups the new metaphors– combining rather than comparing unlike things — as a commentary on our culture? How have mashups influenced and chan...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 23:37
The Winter Olympics only comes around every four years, but fans of the peculiar sport of curling can find curling content online all year round. T...
- Added: Feb 19, 2010
- Length: 04:46
A new multi-use trail has opened in Peterborough, New Hampshire, linking downtown to the top of Pack Monadnock Mountain. Establishing a path to the...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 25, 2010
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 1
