PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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Civics and social studies education are getting a lot of attention these days. How do we teach about our democracy?
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 57:30
A story about the American Prairie reserve, a privately funded national park.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Oct 13, 2023
- Length: 50:00
- Purchases: 1
Crooked cops, a bomb, Don King, this Fourth Amendment case has it ALL.
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 18:54
Glenn Boyd was convicted of a crime he did not commit. This episode of the California Innocence Project features another story about a bad identifi...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 05:00
The California Innocence Project relies on interns to go through thousands of requests for assistance. In this episode, interns share some of their...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
Cloaked in mythology by the age of 40, this original hero of the Wild West embodied the term "living legend." So why have we forgotten him?
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 17:16
Can a song sway a vote? Learn about the use of campaign music throughout the history of American Presidential campaigns since George Washington thr...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 19:19
In the mid-20th Century, a man named Robert LeFevre (pronounced Luh-FAVE) created a small mountain academy just north of Colorado Springs called Th...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Jun 20, 2016
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 25:43
The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:36
- Purchases: 6
The outer bounds of the right to free speech, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter. How does the law tolerate speech that calls for lawlessness?
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 27:34
- Purchases: 3
Edward Harden Peeples V was a racist practically from birth. But once out of the orbit of Richmond, Virginia, he went through a transformation whic...
- Added: Feb 15, 2012
- Length: 55:38
A short piece of advice for the next president from Glen Westbroek, a middle school teacher.
- Added: Oct 07, 2008
- Length: 01:09
A short piece of advice for the next president from John Wilson, Executive Director of the National Education Association.
- Added: Oct 07, 2008
- Length: 01:42
A short piece of advice for the next president from Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
- Added: Oct 07, 2008
- Length: :36
Bob Compton is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur whose documentary film, 2 Million Minutes, takes a look at how six high school students from U...
- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 06:39
A short piece of advice for the next president from the Educational Trust's Amy Wilkins.
- Added: Sep 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
A look at some of the initiatives started by Silence is Violence, which strives to address the crime and social issues facing New Orleans
- Added: Aug 16, 2007
- Length: 07:46
Kansas City Central's debate squad is shaking up the national circuit, by rapping their arguments to music, and making the case that the activity i...
- Added: Aug 29, 2006
- Length: 20:51
- Added: Sep 17, 2005
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 1
