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Civics 101: How Should We Teach Civics?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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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
Who are electors?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The 538 people who actually elect the president.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 04:23
What do politicians do after they leave office?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Three things you can do if you lose an election.

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 04:19
What are democratic norms?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The unwritten rules that keep our government in line.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 1
The Power Worshippers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katherine Stewart
There is a powerful movement in America that is reshaping our political landscape. Anyone who does not agree with their agenda is disenfranchised. ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dismantlng Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Unprecedented concentrations of wealth. Fundamental changes in the economy. A weakened institutional government, making it more difficult to meet p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Privatization of Everything
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Democracy is more efficient, and equally distributed when public goods are created. Things like free education, public health, open parks, clean wa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Education
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Critical Thinking is a set of skills that most students learn at a relatively early age. Even students who don’t do well in school are familiar wit...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Forgotten People
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Arthur Lieber
It wasn’t that long ago that the Democratic party was primarily made up of blue collar workers. That has flipped in the last few years, especially ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Witch Hunts and Enclosures: Bodies, Land and Women
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Silvia Federici
Today, witch hunts are still happening, in places like East Timor, India and Cambodia. Federici, who never really left the subject of witch hunts, ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Morality and the Environmental Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Roger S. Gottlieb
Here’s the conundrum: a good person doesn’t knowingly create devastation and suffering. Yet, that is exactly what we’re doing with our environment....

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: May 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
William Boyer – The Rights of Our Children
From: Barry Vogel
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America’s Future: Transition into the 21st Century William Boyer, a Professor Emeritus and the former Chairman of the Department of Educational Fo...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Driving the Peace Train: Eric Dawson on Putting Peace First
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest today, Eric Dawson, has spent twenty-five years training others to take up the burden of peace. He’s just published a book called Putting...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Behind the Scenes with the documentary Personal Statement
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Christine Rodriguez celebrates with a student she is helping apply to college, Credit: Juliane Dressner
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Cutting School
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Noliwe Rooks
America’s system of public schools is recognized as one of the countries greatest achievements.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Campus Confidential
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacques Berlinerblau
In the 1970s, over half of America’s university professors were tenured or on the tenure track. Today that figure is around 25-percent and falling.

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kill It to Save It
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Corey Dolgon
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.

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  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 80: Unequal Play to Unwanted Contact
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Title IX protects against sexual assault and gender discrimination at universities. Celene Reynolds discusses the state of Title IX today, and how ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 21:51
  • Purchases: 1
The Death of Expertise
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Tom Nichols
Research is not plugging a question into a browser. Yet, we treat the Internet as though it has intelligence. And, in turn, that makes us intelligent.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 78: Can’t Get Ahead
From: Shira Rascoe
Series: No Jargon
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Poverty can persist in the same communities for generations, especially communities of color. Professor Darrick Hamilton walks through the policies...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 27:15
Viking Economics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: George Lakey at Occupy Philly
The Scandinavian countries … Sweden, Norway and Denmark … boasts the world’s happiest, most productive people. They have equality, low unemployment...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Fractured Republic
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Yuval Levin
Americans appear frustrated today. The economy that was supposed to bounce back following the recession nearly a decade ago, remains sluggish and s...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
#37 MIW Jakada Imani - Director of the Center for Spiritual and Social Transformation
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Jakada Imani on MIW, Credit: Oddua Productions
With Akeisha Johnson, your host, this episode of Making it Work we will chat with spiritual leader Jakada Imani about the importance of the Bay Are...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 25:32
  • Purchases: 1
LINDA MCQUAIG ON HER BOOK THE TROUBLE WITH BILLIONAIRES
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Linda speaks about her book The trouble with billionaires , Corporate philanthropy, alternatives

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
Interview with Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:39