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Spy Hop teaches the next generation of digital artists
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sam Highsmith and Gabby Huggins from Spy Hop, Credit: Courtesy of Spy Hop
Spy Hop's executive director Kasandra VerBrugghen shares the story of Utah's award-winning youth media arts program.

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
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
Despite the Best Intentions
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Even in good schools racial inequality thrives. Basically, that’s the summary of an extensive study conducted by associate professors Amanda Lewis ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 6 - Rainbow Rowell's "Eleanor & Park"
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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Congressman Brad Ashford reads from Rainbow Rowell's unlikely romance "Eleanor & Park". Kids from the Book Worm Girls book club discuss the book.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 21:03
Episode 5 - The Hound of Rowan by Henry Neff
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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Love Harry Potter? You'll love the tale of a different sort of wizard school.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 20:19
Beyond the Blackboard: Building Character in Public Schools
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in New York conquers a high ropes course., Credit: Stephen Smith
In the 1940s a British headmaster named Kurt Hahn set up a wilderness school called Outward Bound to teach young men the skills they needed to surv...

Bought by WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, WITF, Vermont Public, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
From Boots to Books: Student Veterans and the New GI Bill
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith
The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Teen Worries College Is No Longer Possible
From: Youth Radio
Series: Youth Radio Commentaries
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Youth Radio's Zildjian Shane shares why he thinks his chances of getting in to a great college are closed to none.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
  • Length: 01:05
Great Expectations
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Making the transition from teenager to independent adult is hard enough… but without family support, it’s especially tricky. Lilia Fuquen reports ...

Bought by KENW


  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:39
  • Purchases: 1
A Language Teacher's Fight to Save the Western Armenian Dialect
From: Bending Borders
Series: Between Homelands: Hope, Fear and Longing in America
Caption: Hratch Sepetjian stands in front of his class on a typical day. He gets frustrated when his students do not take the Armenian lessons seriously., Credit: Andy Vasoyan
A century after Armenians fled genocide in 1915, language teacher Hratch Sepetjian is fighting to keep their dialect – Western Armenian – alive in ...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2015
  • Length: 04:09
What Kind of Citizen?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joel Westheimer
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Considering Loneliness (59:00 / 54:00 Version)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Some researchers suggest that loneliness can be lethal in that it can have significant physical and emotional effects. When is a loner personality...

Bought by KSUT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WNIJ, WEKU, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
The Demands on 2nd & 11th Graders Are Similar?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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It may seem obvious that the academic demands on an 11th grader are more intense than a 2nd grader. However, what may be surprising is the number o...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:43
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
Roald Dahl
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Roald Dahl is a famous children's author with such a deep and interesting story. Aubry takes you on a short journey through his life with this grea...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:57
Arts in the Schools!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Multifacted, Credit: Nati Soti of Zero One Projects.
Diana Green and Cathy Gassenheimer have a mission: Arts Education for Every Alabama pre-k thru 12 Student!

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 04, 2014
  • Length: :54
  • Purchases: 1
MIW #10 Cristy Johnston-Limon - Destiny Arts Center Executive Director
From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio
Caption: Cristy Johnston-Limon on MIW, Credit: Allegra Bandy
Making It Work Radio Season 1-Episode 10 with Cristy Johnston-Limon, Destiney Arts Center Executive Director

  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
Stand Up ND: Rachel’s Challenge
From: Prairie Public
Series: Stand Up ND
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In 1999 Rachel Scott was the first student to be killed in the massacre at Columbine High School. Her death prompted the creation of a national sch...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
Standing on the Shoulders of the Royal Chicano Airforce
From: Anne Hoffman
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The Chicano movement changed California forever in the 1960s and 70s, and its legacy continues in the form of a Sacramento arts center for kids of ...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 04:51
Bay Area Beats: Meet San Francisco's Mystic Blaze
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Bay Area Beats
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TraVaughn Hicks has been making music since he was a young boy and his rapper uncle would record him singing on his songs.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 04:36
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
Determined to Graduate: 'You're Going to See Me on That Stage'
From: WNYC
Series: WNYC's Educating on the Edge
Caption: Paula Dinh, a student at West Brooklyn Community High School, Credit: Jennifer Hsu/WNYC
It was a battle to the end for high school senior Paula Dinh. After years of skipping class and other bad habits, followed by a big push to change ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 1
Replacing School Suspensions with Restorative Justice
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Reporter Joanne Mar takes us to a middle school in San Francisco that took a chance and moved away from zero-tolerance discipline. The decision has...

Bought by Accessible Media Inc.


  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:19
  • Purchases: 1
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

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