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Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids With Dyslexia

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education

Caption: Kindergartners in an Ohio classroom learning letters. One in five American kids struggles to read, and many of them have dyslexia. But public schools are failing to identify or treat dyslexia, even though there are proven ways to help kids with dyslexia l, Credit: Emily Hanford

(9/11/17) Public schools are denying children with dyslexia proper treatment and often failing to identify them in the first place.

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Stuck at Square One: The Remedial Education Trap

From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports

Caption: College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap, Credit: Lila Cherneff

A system meant to give college students a better shot at succeeding is actually getting in the way of many, costing them time and money and taking ...

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Life of the Law #78: A Revolution in a Cornfield

From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law

Caption: Mrs. Montini’s class reads Pete the Cat together., Credit: Ashley Cleek

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 ...

Episode Five: Rebooting the Public Square

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization

In the finale of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott takes us into the public square, to look at how governments must re-engage with citizens.

Episode Four: Re-Industrializing the planet

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization

In Episode four of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks as how the digital revolution has changed how business are run.

Episode Three: Collaborative Health Care

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization

In part three of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the future of heath care and medicine.

Episode Two: Open-Source Knowledge

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization

In episode two of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the transformation of education and science, and the emergence of knowledge-sharing an...

Episode One: Turning the media inside out

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: ReCivilization

In the first installment of ReCivilization, host Don Tapscott looks at the media and how the industrial-age model of mass production is giving way ...

Tapped Out: Clean Water in Peril (1-hour version) with Newshole

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country. They’re people wor...

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