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Chris Cooper and Marianne Leone on "Chasing the Dream: Arts School" (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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For the perspective of experience and solid accomplishment, we're asking two pros in the middle of enviable careers what they learned in and out of...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 1
Liz McMillen on "Who Needs College Anyway?" (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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Liz McMillen is the editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 1
Flowers & Blood: The Chemical Spectacle of Color
From: Meisa Salaita
Series: Small Matters
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A single question can be a powerful force. It can open up an entire field of study. It can inhabit someone, shaping who they become. And it can ...

Bought by WABE, Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 5
Fear & Learning in America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Kuhn
There is a vast divide between those in the “education reform movement” and those who recognize the very real problem of inequality. School superin...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Axl Rose - Best Singer Ever?
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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How were the greatest singers of their time chosen? From Queen to Guns 'N Roses, this episode of Rock School will tell you just that.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Humanist Hour #102: Live at the 73rd Annual Conference in Philadelphia!
From: Bo Bennett
Series: The Humanist Hour
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In this episode, Bo, Kim, and Todd host this episode in front of a live audience at the AHA Conference in Philadelphia. Our guest is Lifetime Achie...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 53:24
That! Medical Quiz Show - Uneven and Still Normal
From: David Gold
Series: That! Medical Quiz Show ®
Caption: ThatMQS
Host: Dr. Pait and Announcer: Tom Brannon on "That! Medical Quiz Show - Uneven and Still Normal" with contestants: Dustin, Gabby, and Magician De...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2014
  • Length: 26:47
A Starlight Festival Cassini Mission Update
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Cassini Mission Project Scientist Linda Spilker, Credit: Mat Kaplan
Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker joins us at the first Starlight Festival in Big Bear Lake, California. The science leader of the ongoing Sa...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jun 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
A Burnable Book (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF, WLIW and more


  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re speaking with a hot name in disruptive innovation, Sebastian Thrun. He’s part of our conversation on hacking higher education. He’s the foun...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 11:54
  • Purchases: 1
Hacking Higher Ed
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Continuing our series on higher ed, we're hacking our way to a better model; call it New U. There won't be a football team or a building and ground...

  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
Thomas Frank on What's the Matter With College (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did higher education, in general, turn from the days of the GI Bill — and the land grant colleges long before that — to being a trap for sevent...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Matter With College?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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How did higher education, in general, turn from the days of the GI Bill — and the land grant colleges long before that — to being a trap for sevent...

  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 18:23
Derek Bok: The View from the Top
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...

Bought by KVSC and KPIK-LP


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 31:11
  • Purchases: 2
A starting place for former foster youth
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Darrell Molett in his living room, Credit: Rachel Wong
Dejon Lewis was 11 years old when child protective services arrived to take him and his twin sister away from their mother, whom he says is a drug ...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 08:47
Chasing the Dream: Arts School
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Show biz is center stage next in our higher ed series: Two venerable private art schools in Boston’s Back Bay — Emerson College and the Berklee Col...

  • Added: May 17, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
First in the Family (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Nearly a third of college students in the United States are first-generation—meaning their parents and grandparents didn’t go. For many of these st...

Bought by WJCT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KVSC, and WLIW


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
First in the Family (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Nearly a third of college students in the United States are first-generation—meaning their parents and grandparents didn’t go. For many of these st...

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, KFOK-LPFM, WTJU, and WXDU


  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Stress: THIS is High School
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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Does Hollywood accurately depict high school life? Any high schooler will tell you “No”! Diamond Naga Siu embarks on her ongoing series called “THI...

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 03:18
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
Rethinking Jewish Identity and Jewish Education
From: Elizabeth DiNolfo
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If Jewish education is to respond to the needs of American Jews and their communities in the 21st century, we need to rethink the assumption that J...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 12:20
  • Purchases: 1
Language Seen, Not Heard
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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What can American Sign Language reveal about how humans learn any language, whether spoken or seen?

Bought by KVNF and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 10:40
  • Purchases: 2
The ABCs of Reading and Writing
From: Hold That Thought
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What can parents and teachers do to help young children learn to read and write? Professor Rebecca Treiman shares a simple strategy that may set th...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:50
  • Purchases: 1
Who Needs College Anyway?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Schools are almost out; will they still be there in September?

  • Added: May 10, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
The Music of Conversation
From: Hold That Thought
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Even casual conversations have surprisingly musical qualities. Linguist Brett Hyde delves into the rhythms behind language and the principles that ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 1

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