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From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit

A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by Vermont Public

Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford

(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KUER, KCBX, WOSU and more

Shackled Legacy: Universities and the Slave Trade

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Frank Campbell was a teenager when he was sold to keep Georgetown University afloat. He was one of some 272 enslaved people sold by Jesuits in Maryland to plantations in Louisiana., Credit: Ellender Memorial Library, Nicholls State University

(9/4/2017) As more schools begin to confront their participation in slavery, they also consider how to make amends.

Bought by WWNO, WMUU-LP, WNCU, WUFT, KOSU and more

Keeping Teachers

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Teacher Christopher McFadden is a member of The Fellowship, a group in Philadelphia trying to recruit and retain black male teachers. Only 2 percent of teachers in American public schools are black men., Credit: Emily Hanford

(8/28/2017) There may be nothing more important in the educational life of a child than having effective teachers. But the United States is struggl...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KOSU, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more

Episode 15: Acre for Acre - The Fight For Strawberry Field

From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here

On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we take a close look at all sides of a controversial land deal and that bitterly divided the Colorado Springs...

Thirsty Planet

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

Caption: Residents of India, Israel confront water issues such as flooding, drought, pollution, and lack of access by the poor.

Scientists say most people on Earth will first experience climate change in terms of water — either too much or too little. This documentary explor...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, WVPE, WRIR and more

Beyond the Blackboard: Building Character in Public Schools

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A student at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in New York conquers a high ropes course., Credit: Stephen Smith

In the 1940s a British headmaster named Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school called Outward Bound to teach young men the skills they needed to surv...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WITF, Vermont Public, WGBH Radio Boston and more

From Boots to Books: Student Veterans and the New GI Bill

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith

The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more

Teaching Teachers

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Teachers in Chicago doing "lesson study," a teacher improvement practice borrowed from Japan., Credit: Emily Hanford

This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Rethinking Jewish Identity and Jewish Education

From: Elizabeth DiNolfo

If Jewish education is to respond to the needs of American Jews and their communities in the 21st century, we need to rethink the assumption that J...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Second Chance Diploma: Examining the GED

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Studying for the GED at an adult education school in Washington, D.C., Credit: Emily Hanford

Millions of high school dropouts hope their ticket to a better job is getting a GED. But critics say passing a test is not the same as getting a hi...

Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, WITF, 90.5 WSNC and more

Keyboard College: How Technology is Revolutionizing Higher Education

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Gary Hotsfall, a student at Western Governor’s University Washington. WGU is a network of nonprofit online universities., Credit: Stephen Smith

Digital technologies are changing how many Americans go to college - from online courses to robo-tutors. Can these innovations make college cheaper...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WUFT, KZYX, KMXT, and KOSU

The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix

The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

Bought by WTIP

E-lection Bay

From: The Final Edition Radio Hour
Series: Singles from The Final Edition Radio Hour

Bid on and buy a place for yourself in the government.

Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: College students in a Maryland science class. Some professors are abandoning the traditional lecture because research suggests it's not very effective, but lecture classes are still common. , Credit: Emily Hanford

Most college students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn. (9/1/2011)

Bought by WUFT, WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, WTIP, KZYX and more

Some College, No Degree: Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College, and What to Do About It

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: A student picks up new job skills at the Tennessee Technology Center in Murfreesboro, a technical school where many people who have quit college go to improve their chances in an increasingly competitive economy. , Credit: Doug Strickland

37 million Americans are college dropouts. What wlll it take to get them back? (8/25/2011)

Bought by WMUU-LP, WTIP, KWIT, and NPR Illinois

The Planning Problem

From: Nathanael Johnson

Caption: Artist rendering of the California High Speed Rail, Credit: CAHSRA

The Big Dig, the Bay Bridge, the Chunnel... Why do transportation projects go so spectacularly over budget? There's a simple explanation - this doc...

Bought by The Neighborhood and PRX Remix

India Rising

From: The Stanley Foundation

A special documentary program from the Stanley Foundation, KQED Public Radio and KUT Austin.

Bought by KWIT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, WYSO, WBEZ and more

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