PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative
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Family separation. Deportation. Border crossing deaths. Profiling. Limited access to resources such as quality education and healthcare. All of the...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX
- Added: Feb 07, 2023
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
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
In grade school and high school, back girls make up about 16% of the female student population. Yet, of all girls referred to law enforcement in ou...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
When it comes to politics, age appears to be a prominent dividing line. And, a closer look at youth today shows that the young around the world are...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Millennials are a diverse group. Many today are changing the boundaries of what constitutes appropriate male and female behavior. Many don’t even w...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 15, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- 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
The world of technology is male driven. Very few women are represented in leadership roles. For decades now, there’s been a major gender diversity ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It probably won’t surprise you but boys and girls are not on a par with STEM programs: That’s the shorthand term for science, technology, engineeri...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- 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
The cost for a college education is escalating. It’s now the biggest single expense for many American families.
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 4
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
Americans see education as the primary social institution for achieving the goal of equality and opportunity. While there are sharp disagreements o...
- Added: Feb 02, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 2
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1