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Magical Memories
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
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Ms. Dean shares her magical memories with her students.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:59
How One Student Who 'Hates School' Finds Her Path to Graduation
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
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For high school senior Paula Dinh, the path to graduation has been a long one, with times when she questioned her ability — and desire — to finish ...

Bought by WNIJ


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Lots of Talking is One School's Strategy to Retain Students
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
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To enroll at West Brooklyn Community High School, students must buy in to a certain level of support and counseling. In exchange, the school promis...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:48
WorldCanvass Studio: Face to Face
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 56:10
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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Commentator Guido on Back to School
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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I was so lost, so bereft, I doubted my vocation. I wasn't worried about becoming a priest, I was worried about dressing myself.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:15
Bayoji Akingbola - "The Victim of Circumstance"
From: Learning Matters
Series: The Real World of Teach for America
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Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
Quincy Dean's Radio Diary
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Quincy Dean is trying to decide whether she should quit being home-schooled.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2009
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Peace Talks Radio: Teaching Peace (Part 2) (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Colman McCarthy
Can we, should we, teach peace in our schools? Two individuals who are driven to teach peace in Washington, DC and Seattle, WA are profiled.

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2008
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
Sex in the City and a Catholic School Girl
From: Project Stitch
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A fourteen year-old Catholic schoolgirl looks for answers about sex from a nun, a downtown clinic and a pharamacy.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
Will in the Courts
From: Samantha Broun
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Listen in on a Shakespeare class in an all girls juvenile detention hall.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1