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Jacob Vigdor: College Admissions Quandries
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Jacob Vigdor
Whether it be standardized testing, grades, extracurricular activities or personal essays, the question of how to level the playing field in educat...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Roderick Graham: The End of Affirmative Action?
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
With the right-leaning US Supreme Court poised to eliminate affirmative action in higher education around the country — this seemed like an opportu...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
How should students learn about gender and sexual identity? What role should schools play?
From: Ken Futernick
Series: Courageous Conversations About Our Schools
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The central questions guiding this podcast episode are this: What role should schools play regarding policies, instruction, and classroom discussio...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:59
Rod Graham: The Fight Over Affirmative Action
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rod Graham
Back in 2016 the US Supreme Court established that the University of Texas could continue to consider race as a factor in admissions, in order to e...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
John Stoehr on Critical Race Theory Pt. 1
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
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Have you noticed what’s got the far right-wing of American politics hot-and-bothered lately? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to John Stoehr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Liz King: Civil Rights In Our Public Schools
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Liz King
One front on which the fight for racial justice is being waged is in the area of education. We have been led to believe that education is the great...

Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
This Engineer is Running for Congress
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
Caption: Map of the 17th District of the US House of Representatives
Project manager and software engineer Rick Kennedy is running for US House Representative for District 17 in Texas, in the 2020 Democratic primary....

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 41:58
Behind the Scenes with the documentary Personal Statement
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Christine Rodriguez celebrates with a student she is helping apply to college, Credit: Juliane Dressner
Personal Statement takes us into the lives of three public HS seniors who are determined to go to college and take their classmates with them.

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Do the Right Thing (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Taking an ethics course is not necessarily transformative-- rather, it will teach how to think through all sides of an issue and determine what re...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WSGE, WYAP, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2018
  • Length: 57:54
  • Purchases: 10
Science Storytelling
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Marshall Escamilla is part of a team of podcasters who create Tumble, a science podcast for kids and their families. With a background in music and...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 39:29
  • Purchases: 1
These Hollowed Halls: Business Creep(s) in the University
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Burawoy holds his class outside - lecturing on social theory to his students who wanted to show their support for protest against increasing tuition and fees in 2011.
The public University as we know it is in crisis, as business prerogatives overtake its values and executive-style leadership eats away at its budg...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Exceptions Aren’t the Rule: When Grit Isn’t Enough
From: Volunteer Staff
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Our guest is the founding headmaster of The Boston Arts Academy, Boston’s first public high school for the visual and performing arts, Linda Nathan...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Former United States Congress Chief of Staff for The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) Bob Shapiro shares Visions of a Fiscally Healthy Nation
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Caption: Former Congressional Chief of Staff (JCT) Bob Shapiro & Dr. Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Former United States Congress Chief of Staff for The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) Bob Shapiro shares Visions of a Fiscally Healthy Nation with...

Bought by WCNY and KFOI Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 27:57
  • Purchases: 2
Glass Ceiling, Ivory Tower (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Women are earning more degrees in higher education than men. So why are there so few women in tenure track or leadership positions in academia?

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 3
Zoe Weil: Sustainable Education, Part II
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zoe Weil
What if every child emerged from the public educational system with an appreciation for the connectivity of all human and non-human life, and with ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Zoe Weil: Sustainable Education
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Zoe Weil
What’s the purpose of schooling? Reading, writing and ‘rithmetic, right? Well, our guest today begs to differ. Zoe Weil, author and the founder of ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 29:40
  • Purchases: 2
Cultural Regionalization - Colin Woodard Part One
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Author Colin Woodard discusses his recent book in generational terms on Yesterday Today & Tomorrow. American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Real paybacks when you get involved
From: Good Dirt Radio
Series: Good dirt...for a change
Caption: Grassroots efforts give you more.
Hear how grass roots groups can empower citizens to get involved in creating the kind of world they want.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Democracy Online
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Using the web to foster more open and accessible government.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1