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A school district on the Texas border with Mexico achieved an astounding transformation that could be an example for the rest of the nation. Pharr-...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Aug 30, 2014
- Length: 01:00:07
- Purchases: 1
The first of two PEACE TALKS RADIO programs that will explore the special challenges of raising boys into becoming young men who DON’T turn to viol...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KGNU Community Radio, and KUNM
- Added: Aug 27, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 3
Creative author, illustrator and filmmaker William Joyce is an Academy Award Winner, Emmy Award Winner and his illustrations have appeared on numer...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 16:44
A candidate for Wisconsin's 51st Assembly district remembers his son, Peter, who brought so much joy into his life.
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 08:19
More and more states are joining a movement passing laws to honor students’ bilingualism and biliteracy. In California, thousands of students have ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:40
A large majority of children in the U.S. are not reading at grade level by the time they reach fourth grade and children from low-income families a...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:28
This year 45 states and the District of Columbia are starting to use the new Common Core State Standards for English language and math. Some Latino...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:18
The new Mayor of New York is announcing plans for universal pre-K as part of a number of reforms to the local educational system, joining a handful...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:30
Public schools are largely unprepared to teach and guide Latino students. These students face some of the most critical issues in the school syste...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:16
Students of an impoverished elementary school that sits next to a waste dump near the U.S. border scored the best math grades in Mexico in a nation...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 54:34
Veronica Martinez is a mother in prison. While in county jail awaiting trial she gave birth to her daughter Amaya Martinez. The Bureau of Justice S...
- Added: May 13, 2014
- Length: 24:13
Exploring how parents of children diagnosed with Autism experience their children and child-rearing.
- Added: Apr 02, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
Interviews with birth professionals and a mom.
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 30:01
“Hey, you’re smart!” That feels good to hear, doesn’t it? Praise always feels good to hear, but not all praise motivates us to try new things, ch...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
For this special documentary, Dustin Dwyer spent six weeks in the fall following a group of third grade students at Congress Elementary in Grand Ra...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:31
Are you an auditory learner or a visual learner? If you answered "yes" you would be right. We use all our senses to learn and process information....
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
The part of our brains that is responsible for generating creativity evolved throughout human existence to serve a problem solving function. If yo...
- Added: Dec 13, 2013
- Length: 07:20
Chérie Newman, Barbara Theroux, and Zed talk about recently-published books written by authors from the western U.S. -- fiction, nonfiction, and po...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
It’s time for the sixty-sixth iteration of the The Mikie Show! Note that’s iterable not irritable, there’s a diff. Yes, join us for a sweet visit w...
- Added: Nov 29, 2013
- Length: 28:02
In this episode of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Robert Duke talk about some of the historical and present day factors that contrib...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
We talk to three people who, when affected directly or indirectly by gun violence, have channeled their pain and upset into efforts to address the ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 7
Sometimes all it takes to get kids excited about science is a bag full of eyeballs.
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 53:48
- Purchases: 3
Sherry wants to know how she can make sure her son is safe of the Internet. Is there an app or email service that would prevent him from seeing thi...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WCWP
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
A short fiction by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, read by Joe Bevilacqua.
Great for Christmas Day (Humphrey Bogart's birthday), a funny film noir or anyt...
- Added: Mar 11, 2013
- Length: 05:12
Youth reporter Ethan Reinhart anchors this year's MLK Day documentary featuring kids talking to other kids at six different service projects on the...
Bought by KSTK and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
