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Hobbies Spark Lights
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Highland Park 2018 Youth Stories
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Students in Austin, Texas explore the significance of hobbies.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2018
  • Length: 04:33
Every Teacher Has A Different Story
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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Nomerica, Ryan, Lexanny, and Julian conduct a "Vox Pop" interview with five Martin Middle School educators about what motivated them to teach and w...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 06:59
Sports Are A Really Good Way To Teach Life Skills
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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Girls' soccer coach and math teacher Mrs. Rangel talks about how her experience playing soccer led her to teach kids.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 02:59
Living the T1Dream
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Olivia was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2010. Three years later, her best friend, Allison, was diagnosed with the same disease. They talk to e...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 1
Feeling Raced
From: Terrascope Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Does your race affect how you act? Well, it probably affected how you answered that question.... In this award-winning story, hear why one young ma...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 3
Starting Over
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Summer Soundwave
Caption: An ESL class, Credit: Sarah Dillard
Hosts Sarah Dillard and Aarti Chandorkar discuss the challenges of turning over a new leaf as we start the final week of Summer Soundwave. Travel t...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
  • Purchases: 1
Homeless Student
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive Fall 2013
Caption: Kyra Macfarlane , Credit: Chris Otey
27,000 students in Washington state are facing homelessness. Kyra Macfarlane is one of them. She has gone from house to motel and back dozens of ti...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 2
NYC Student Tackles the Last Test Standing Between Her and a High School Diploma
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Danielle Motindabeka in the WNYC studio
When Radio Rookie Danielle Motindabeka came to the United States at age 13, she didn’t speak English. By the time she was in high school, Danielle ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 1
A Students-Eye View Inside Philly’s Public Schools
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Julia R. Masterman High School Student Nuwar Ahmed introduces us to her classmates and teachers—all of whom are struggling to keep education a prio...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2014
  • Length: 07:10
Learning to Laughing Through The Pain
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Core by Open Orchard Productions
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Since she was a little girl, Saphira's life has been structured around the limits of Cerebral Palsey. Pushing through physical and emotional pain, ...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
One Step at a Time: Handling Loss
From: Open Orchard Productions
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How does a teenage boy handle loss? David must face his father's impending death from lung cancer while also maintaining his studies and athletics.

Bought by PRX Remix and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:42
  • Purchases: 2
Generation Justice Alumni Danya Mustafa recently went to Occupied Palestine for 2 months.
From: KUNM
Caption: Danya Mustafa in Palestine, Credit: Danya Mustafa
Generation Justice Alumni Danya Mustafa recently went to Occupied Palestine for 2 months. She spent some of her time with her class "UNM Palestine...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 19:01
Music at Different Ages
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Danee Voss, Credit: Philip Nusbaum
Danee Voss, a student at Susan B Anthony middle School in Minneapolis talked to her mother about the function of music at different ages. The resul...

  • Added: May 14, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Scars from Bullying
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
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Grace Wenner, student at Susan B. Anthony Middle School (Minneapolis) tells us that the emotional scars from verbal bullying are worse than the phy...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Different, Not Disabled: The Perception of My Mind
From: WHJE
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Aspergers, in my opinion, has always been misunderstood due to it being a medical "condition." When you listen to this, I ask that you go in with ...

Bought by HowSound, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTIP, KFAI Minneapolis, KSFR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 8
Stuck
From: Radio Rookies
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Kaddeem Wright enjoys reading philosophy and arguing with his friends about history and politics. With his smarts and innate curiosity about the wo...

Bought by The Story, KUT, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 08:55
  • Purchases: 4
Mr. Hsu Comes Out
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
Caption: Sushi Song, Credit: Evan Roberts
"My father took me to a strip club to turn me straight...". A touching memoir of rejection, acceptance and forgiveness in Mr. Hsu's third period ge...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 06:26
  • Purchases: 4
Does Biology Class Really Matter?
From: Terrascope Youth Radio
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If given the chance would you take that environmental class in high school?

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 1
El Americano Dream
From: SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Latinos in the States and the many struggles they face and overcome.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2005
  • Length: 06:28