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An interview with renowned education writer Kevin Carey about the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and inves...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 21:00
There’s an undeniable problem with our criminal justice system, but one organization offers some hope. To date, The Innocence Project has exonerate...
Bought by KENW, WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPVL and more
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 7
Designed to be the front page of the Internet, Reddit is now one of the most talked about and influential spots on the web. We talk with one of its...
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 5
If someone is known as “the jerk” at work, it’ll show up on their performance review, right? Not likely, say two management researchers. Lilia Fuq...
Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, KPVL, and KKRN
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 4
When big business news breaks, public relations teams try to get out in front of the story. But that wasn’t always the case. PR in the 19th century...
Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 02:36
- Purchases: 3
A single lie could cost a job – or a life – as it turned out for Eric Duncan, the Ebola “Patient Zero” in Texas. What if there was a way to accurat...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 2
When choosing wine do you stop to think about the affect it has on your health and well being? And do men and women engage with it differently? Fr...
- Added: Jul 08, 2014
- Length: 29:29
It’s an age old question for teachers from elementary school to college: how do you get students to do their homework? Some educators are trying to...
- Added: Nov 18, 2013
- Length: 02:28
For every ten students who go to community college for an associate’s degree, only one graduates in three years. Is it time to overhaul the communi...
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 53:53
- Purchases: 2
Series host Martha Burk interviews New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan's The Fe...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
Series host Martha Burk interviews Dr. Myiesha Taylor, prominent emergency room physician and advocate working with the Disney corporation to inte...
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 2
Across the nation in dozens of communities, veterans are being diverted to special courts for crimes they've committed after and in large measure b...
- Added: Dec 21, 2012
- Length: 03:43
I spent the first three days of my senior year of college in Minnesota watching Rhode Island's Republicans get rowdy at the site of a woman from Al...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 05:59
This is a commentary calling on cities of all sizes to grow intentionally
- Added: Jul 14, 2005
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 2
PROMO for the WUNC-produced regional program, The State of Things
- Added: Jan 26, 2005
- Length: :29
