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From: Rebecca Blatt
Series: Kids Imprisoned

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

Episode 3: Pivotal decisions

From: Rebecca Blatt
Series: Kids Imprisoned

What happens after juveniles are arrested and how are their destinations decided? The journey is complicated, with different laws, judges and proto...

Teens and Illegal Guns: Local Solutions

From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses

The problem of gun violence among teens and young adults isn’t exclusive to Indianapolis. But it turns out that the way the city is tackling the pr...

Teens and Illegal Guns: Attitudes and Uses

From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses

Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira, Y-Press

Priya Mirmira, age 15, spoke with 18-year-old inmates who were serving time for gun charges. She learned about their attitudes toward guns, how the...

Teens and Illegal Guns: Access

From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses

Caption: Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility, Pendleton, IN, Credit: Andy Yang and Priya Mirmira

In a 2009 survey by the CDC, nearly 1500 Indiana high school students said they had carried a gun for at least one day during the previous 30 days....

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Teens and Illegal Guns: Overview

From: Y-Press
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses

In the last decade in Indiana, about 130 murders were committed by teens, and 79 percent of those involved a firearm. After a Y-Presser lost her co...

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North City Gangs Getting Younger, More Violent

From: Adam Allington
Series: Block by Block: Street Gangs in St. Louis

teenage gangbangers responsible for spike in St. Louis murder rate

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and NPR Station Showcase with PRX

Part 1: Welcome to Western Guilford

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

We begin a series to better understand the challenges facing all high schools by looking closely at one school: Western Guilford High School in Gre...

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Part 2: Freshman Academy

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

More students drop out in the 9th grade than any other year of school. At Western Guilford High School in Greensboro, North Carolina, school leader...

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Part 3: The Home Team

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

A ball game at Western Guilford High School was once the "only" place to be on a Friday night. Western was the heart of a tight-knit community that...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Part 4: What Are Kids Learning?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

Do you remember what you learned in high school? Much of what is taught stays the same, year after year, from generation to generation. Homer's Ody...

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Part 5: What Are You Going to Be When You Grow Up?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

In Greensboro, North Carolina the textile and manufacturing industries once provided good jobs to generations of people with little or no education...

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Part 6: Tests, Tests and More Tests

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

There has been a dramatic change in education and it?s all about numbers. State and federal laws now require schools to measure just about everythi...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KPFT

Part 7: AP or Not AP?

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

In the past five years, at Western and high schools around the country, there's been a big push to increase the number of students taking higher le...

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Part 8: The Future of Teachers

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

Schools across the country are scrambling to fill a teacher shortage. In Greensboro, North Carolina, the school system is offering new teachers fre...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KQAT

Part 10: The Meaning of High School

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

We conclude our series from Western Guilford High School in Greensboro. A team of reporters visited Western over the course of six months?. gettin...

Bought by WEZU, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Part 9: Card #10 (Sue)

From: WUNC
Series: Daily Lessons: Inside Western Guilford High School

Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States drop out of school. The reasons are many and each story is unique. Today, as ...

Bought by WEZU, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio

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