Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Insitute Edition is comprised of audio stories produced by teachers during our 2011 and 2012 summer institute. We have dug into our Stories Vault-meaning our hard drives- and have found some stories that we've missed, or that we haven't shared before. Hope you enjoy!

Listen to four short audio stories produced in our first-ever summer workshop!

Walker Mettling and his friends dig through their never-ending vault of stories....

APM Reports is built on the distinctive reporting done by journalists shining light on the truth

People tell their stories as they respond to profound and fundamental change in the places they call home.

EMBARGOED FOR AIR UNTIL JANUARY 16, 2017 AUDIO AVAILABLE FOR STATIONS TO AUDITION "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 tells the story of a fourth grade classroom at William Penn Elementary, a public school in one of the nation’s poorest neighborhoods, North Lawndale on Chicago’s West Side. The documentary weaves together human stories in the school, from the children to their teacher to the principal, and pulls back to explain the big picture. It looks at poverty’s hold on school achievement and explores the unintended consequences of a core belief driving school reform today – that poverty is no excuse for low achievement.

A rich, oral-based cultural history, documenting and debating U.S. race relations from Emancipation to the Civil Rights Movement, and exploring how that history continues to effect us. With numerous eyewitness accounts, rare period music recordings, and narrative contributions by James Earl Jones and Studs Terkel.

Three half-hour radio documentaries about the immigrant experience, coproduced by WBGO and the New Jersey Historical Commission during the hundredth-anniversary year of the opening of Ellis Island. The programs feature professional actors, who bring to life some of the stories that were collected from immigrants during the 1930s by fieldworkers of the Federal Writers' Project.

In 1963, when the fight for civil rights was in full force in the United States, Austin Clarke, now an award winning author, traveled to Harlem to find out more about living conditions. He interviewed a wide variety of people: community workers, historians, journalists, and activists such as Malcolm X. What went to air was a two part documentary called 'Harlem in Revolt.' We include a bonus Part Three, which is Clarke's entire unedited interview with Malcom X.

A podcast from CDS, hosted by John Biewen. SceneOnRadio.org.

Every year more than one million students fail to graduate from high school on time. But we rarely explore what happens next. What are these students’ lives like 10, 20, even 40 years after they leave the classroom? Do they ever get a second chance?

The SaltCast was a bi-weekly podcast produced from 2008-2010, aimed at pulling back the curtain on radio storytelling. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, Saltcast explored the ins-and-outs of radio production. If you want to hear more Salt radio work, including that produced by more recent students, check out http://www.prx.org/group_accounts/1185-salt !