PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 14:21
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 26, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
There’s a long held assumption that college access is available to anyone and everyone. All they have to have is fortitude and a big dream. In othe...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
An international survey in 2011 found that students in Shanghai outperformed American students in every category. President Obama referred to the r...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
The program features the voices of author, Tobias Wolff, along with a great cast of writers and thinkers: Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, T.C. Boyle...
Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:49
- Purchases: 5
When Wendy Kopp was a college senior she had an idea: what if some of America’s top college students chose teaching over higher-paying professional...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 09:49
Like a lot of high school seniors, Mayra Jimenez is weighing her options after graduation, and hoping to be college bound but not broke.
Bought by KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, and Michigan Radio Economy Special
- Added: Jun 02, 2009
- Length: 02:42
- Purchases: 3
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
