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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
Artist WOLF SENATUS describes participation in Little Haiti Earthquake Anniversary Mural.
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 03:25
This is an amazing tale about a goose, two scientists and an ocean between them
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and KMXT
- Added: Jan 16, 2011
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Talking politics at the Waldo Flea Market in Waldo, FL
Nov 2, 2008
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 05:56
Portland is Maine’s largest city and busiest hub for travel and immigration. However, in recent years it’s become a haven for a new visitor: the be...
Bought by SALTcast Podcast, WMPG, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 06, 2011
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 3
From courtroom battles to government regulation, we take a look at how citizen groups around the world are holding oil companies accountable for en...
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Rents have always been high in New York; but since 1994, so called ‘Quality of Life’ policing, and business friendly development strategies have de...
- Added: Dec 01, 2010
- Length: 17:01
So-called ‘quality of life’ policing may temporarily decrease crime, but it has harsh consequences for innocent people caught up in the frenzy of a...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this program recorded on site in northeastern Pennsylvania, we follow the Marcellus Shale trail and find the fracturing of the bedrock under thi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2010
- Length: 55:30
- Purchases: 2
A fungal disease has been destroying bat colonies in the northeastern United States and is now spreading south and west across the country. What is...
Bought by KENW
- Added: Nov 05, 2010
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
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
The half hour documentary explores various aspects of the Muslim American experience from courting rituals to individuals who choose to become Musl...
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Patient Transfer Vehicles. They look like ambulances but they're not. Riding in one can land you in the wild wild west of unregulated care. 'Risky ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 30:50
The revolving door between the federal government and its favorite contractors sets up abuses.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
The US has been hemorrhaging high-paying manufacturing jobs since the 1959s.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:59
Six monster banks control 60% of the US Gross National Product
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 03:59
Revised piece. Too much carbon is flooding the ocean with carbolic acid, with devestating effects on life in the sea.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:58
Revised edition. A report shows that the last 50 years of tax cuts benefited the very rich but left the middle class without improvement.
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 01:59
A scientific conference in London, England studied the geologic impacts of climate change by reviewing the records of previous warming periods. It...
- Added: Sep 15, 2010
- Length: 02:00
How one Congressman's bald-faced bluff saved Reagan National from permanent closure.
- Added: Sep 09, 2010
- Length: 06:07
Terry's cell at Orleans Parish Prison became a drowning cage as the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina rose almost to the ceiling. As his drowned...
- Added: Aug 21, 2010
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 3
When there aren’t enough hours of work to go around, why not share them? That’s the premise of “shared-work” programs in seventeen states around th...
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 07:10
Despite Obama’s words of support of small business, experts say some aren’t relying on government, but more and more on community groups and micro-...
Bought by WCSU-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Aug 12, 2010
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 3
We look at how the unemployed are getting creative about making ends meet, from starting their own businesses to work-sharing.
Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We take a look at the Police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland, and the debate over who gets to decide when an officer has done something wrong.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
