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The summer after Jessica Maple finished 6th grade, she found out that her great-grandmother’s house had been burglarized. So, 12-year-old Jessica g...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 30:54
Kids across the country deal with unequal treatment because of their identity: their race, ethnicity, disability or gender identity. Barriers, chal...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 15, 2020
- Length: 30:23
- Purchases: 1
What happens after juveniles are arrested and how are their destinations decided? The journey is complicated, with different laws, judges and proto...
- Added: Oct 15, 2020
- Length: 30:37
A piece by Darkendra Donner. My piece is about the complications everyone might have with going to school this fall. My interviewees will express t...
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 04:47
Season 1, Episode 11
The legal system operates very differently for juveniles and for adults. Yet the age at which a person is considered an adult...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 09:20
- Purchases: 1
Love comes in many forms - for Lacy, it all started during Hurricane Florence with a few, loose sheep.
- Added: Feb 26, 2020
- Length: 07:55
This week on the show : Ceuta, the Spanish enclave in Morocco, is a European town on African soil. It's often the frontline of clashes between Afr...
- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 29:55
Following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeast Japan, a small boat belonging to Takata High School in Rikuzentakata was swept o...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:29
- Purchases: 1
Today 50% of all college students are the first of their families to go to college. They carry the hopes and dreams of there families in their back...
Bought by KRZA and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2017
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 2
With the Summer Olympics around the corner, the eyes of the world will turn to Brazil. But Brazil is not only about Rio and Sao Paulo. What about t...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 02:57
- Purchases: 1
How a more personal approach to ending homelessness may also be more effective.
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 03:32
Hi-5 Sports was founded in Clifton Park, N.Y. by Jim Fitzgerald to give children with physical and developmental disabilities the chance to play si...
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 03:30
On May 23, the Boy Scouts of America voted to lift its ban on gay youth members. The ban on gay adult leaders still stands. This program looks at...
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...
- Added: Mar 07, 2013
- Length: 53:59
The anatomy of a sentencing hearing for a juvenile in Michigan facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. Charles Lewis, Jr was 13 wh...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 17:14
- Purchases: 2
Following Vice President Biden's visit to Exeter, New Hampshire, audience members offered their thoughts on the speech, the Buffett Rule, and the c...
- Added: Apr 17, 2012
- Length: 02:16
Kids need good teachers. It’s something people know instinctively. But experts disagree over how to measure teacher quality. (8/26/2010)
Bought by WMUU-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPIP-LP, KMUZ, WTIP and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2011
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 10
In Timor-Leste, members of Martial Arts Groups outnumber the local police officers forty-five to one and are legendary for the violence they have w...
- Added: Nov 02, 2010
- Length: 08:18
"Why aren't there any lunch tables our school courtyard?"
- Added: Mar 30, 2009
- Length: 02:08
The newest, hottest idea in school reform seems to be paying students to learn. Is it a good idea, or a way to avoid tackling the tough issues? We ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 30, 2008
- Length: 06:56
- Purchases: 1
We spend an afternoon at R.U.B.A.R.B a volunteer run bike shop for kids in the ninth ward
- Added: Apr 03, 2008
- Length: 05:11
- Added: Sep 06, 2006
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 1
