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LINDA MCQUAIG ON HER BOOK THE TROUBLE WITH BILLIONAIRES
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Linda speaks about her book The trouble with billionaires , Corporate philanthropy, alternatives

  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 30:05
“Equality and Dialogue in American High Schools”
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
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Host Jack Russell Weinstein visits with Nel Noddings, an American feminist, educationalist, and philosopher best known for her work in philosophy o...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Truth About Cultural Bias (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Hoodie Rally in Memory of Trayvon Martin, Credit: Madison Guy, on Flickr
Sharply different reactions to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial reveal the racial divide that persists in America. We speak with the autho...

Bought by WCNY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KKRN, WTJU, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 5
Sculptor and auto mechanic Harold Kyle talks about making art
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Auto Mechanic Harold Kyle plays with movement, balance, and shadows in his sculpture.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Charles W. Morgan at Sea
In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
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
Interview with Latin Waves Host Sylvia Richardson
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Sylvia L. Richardson is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the host and producer of the internationally...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 28:39
American Sanctuaries
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: American Sanctuaries
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates libraries with this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists who talk about how they found inspiration...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Carla Perlo, founder and artistic director of Dance Place
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district. -

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Derek Bok: The View from the Top (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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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 KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Sebastian Thrun: MOOCs, Angry Birds, and Lifelong Learning (Excerpt)
From: Open Source
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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 Radio Newark and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 19, 2014
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
Anonymous and Diana
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Marquell, Sharon, and Jane
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
The ABCs of Reading and Writing (Original Long Version)
From: Hold That Thought
Series: On Language
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How does a toddler understand the differences between written words and pictures? Rebecca Treiman, professor of child developmental psychology, exp...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
How Personal Intelligence Shapes Our Lives: A Conversation with John D. Mayer
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: Emotional and Personal Intelligence
John D. Mayer, or Jack as he likes to be called, is the renowned psychologist who co-developed the groundbreaking theory of emotional intelligence ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2014
  • Length: 52:30
Strike!
From: Kim Hornak
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Common Air is spending this episode investigating the current strike that is taking place on University of New Brunswick campuses.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 28:23