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Episode 3: Added Challenges: Disabilities and the Pandemic

From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files

Youth with disabilities had learning challenges during the pandemic that still have a lingering effect.

Bought by WMUU-LP

Episode 2: World On Fire

From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Speaking Our Truths: The -Ism Youth Files

Social activism by youth during and after the pandemic helped their mental wellness.

Bought by WMUU-LP

An Outlier

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

This moment in time is teaching us to find ways to be alone. That's what it's always been like for James.

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The Keepers: Archiving the Now with Host Frances McDormand

From: The Kitchen Sisters
Series: The Keepers

Caption: Host, Frances McDormand, Credit: Alison Rosa

The Keepers: Archiving the Now — a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winner Frances McDormand. Storie...

Bought by Prairie Public, WJCT, WABE, WNMU-FM, WCQS and more

Upton Boxing Center

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Some guys come in and think you can turn pro next week, but once they come in here and find out what you have to go through, it’s like a wake-up ca...

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Ayden

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

Some people on the sidewalk said they saw what happened, and they called security and the police. And I remember one woman telling me, ‘You can rep...

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Syniya

From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits

My advice for kids, for losing someone you love: Just remember the good times, and remember those big hugs and big kisses you always got.

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The View from Room 205

From: WBEZ

"The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unflinching look at the intersection of poverty and education in this country. It ...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, KICI Iowa City, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio, KISU and more

TEASER: The View from Room 205

From: WBEZ

PREVIEW THE HOUR NOW! http://www.prx.org/pieces/194893-the-view-from-room-205 "The View from Room 205" is a one-hour documentary that takes an unf...

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Bought and Sold

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

Caption: Javille Sutton was a 14-year-old runaway when she accepted a ride from a pimp who sold her across the country for the next six years. She was arrested multiple times as a juvenile. She now counsels girls at a horse ranch for young victims of trafficking.

Advocates for kids are pushing for a new approach to combating underage prostitution: treating young people caught up in sex trafficking as victims...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WRIR, WEKU, Georgia Public Broadcasting 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...

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One Child at a Time: Custom Learning in the Digital Age

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

Caption: Working a math problem at Mooresville Middle School in North Carolina, where each student gets a laptop., Credit: Stephen Smith

Learning with a personal tutor is one of the best ways to learn. But hiring a tutor for every student was never a realistic option, until now. Can ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KOSU, WTIP and more

Autism Grows Up

From: Capital Public Radio
Series: The View From Here

Caption: Freddie Topete at Adult Transition Program, Credit: Andrew Nixon/Capital Public Radio

2013 Sigma Delta Chi Award winning one-hour documentary explores what's happening twenty years after a sharp rise in autism rates. Thousands of chi...

Bought by WLRH, KCPW Salt Lake City, KOSU, KICI Iowa City, WERA-LP and more

Put to the Test

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

Caption: Students take a standardized test at a high school in Greensboro, North Carolina., Credit: Billy Barnes

There’s been a dramatic change in public education over the past 10 years and it’s all about numbers. (9/6/2007)

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, NPR Illinois, WTIP, KERA and more

Rising by Degrees

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

Caption: Students on their graduation day from Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland. Most young Latinos looking for a way up through higher education choose community college, but a lot of them never make it to graduation day. , Credit: Emily Hanford

Young Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and they are among the least likely to graduate from college. (11/5/2009)

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, KPIP-LP, KQED, KZYX, Nevada Public Radio and more

Early Lessons

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

Caption: A student in a preschool classroom at River Breeze Elementary, a public school in Palatka, Florida. Preschool used to be a radical idea, but now the majority of American children go to preschool. , Credit: Stephen Smith

There’s been a quiet revolution in America’s schools over recent decades. We’ve added an extra grade to a child’s education: Preschool. (10/29/2009)

Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WSKG, KPIP-LP, KMUZ and more

Testing Teachers

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

Caption: Teacher Joe Curtis working with a student at Hardy Elementary School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Credit: Emily Hanford

Kids need good teachers. It’s something people know instinctively. But experts disagree over how to measure teacher quality. (8/26/2010)

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Horse Therapy

From: Dmae Lo Roberts

Caption: Grace Kurlychek, Credit: Dmae Roberts

A girl with disabilities receives emotional and physical therapy through horse-riding.

Bought by KGUA and WRVO Public Media

Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools are Failing Black Students (54:00 and 59:00)

From: Nancy Solomon

This documentary won a 2010 Peabody Award. Nationwide, suburban schools are doing a good job educating white students, but those schools are not ge...

Bought by WNYC, WAER Syracuse, NY, KUER, WESM 91.3 FM, WITF and more