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Victims
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
From Y-Press
Caption: Juard Barnes, counselor at Prescription for Hope and YVRT programs, Wishard Hospital, Credit: Y-Press
The emergency room at Indianapolis' Wishard Hospital sees its fair share of gun shot victims, both teenagers and adults. Y-Press visited Wishard to...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 00:04:18
Teens and Illegal Guns: Local Solutions
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
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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...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:42
Teens and Illegal Guns: Attitudes and Uses
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
From Y-Press
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...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:38
Teens and Illegal Guns: Access
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
From Y-Press
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....

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:38
Teens and Illegal Guns: Overview
Series: Teens and Guns: Illegal Uses
From Y-Press
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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...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 00:03:37
Integration
Series: (w)indy
From Y-Press
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Many immigrants come to America looking for a better life with more opportunities. They come with widely varying levels of education and resources....

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:54
Burmese youth refugees
Series: (w)indy
From Y-Press
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Just over 1000 Burmese refugees settled in Indianapolis last year and that number is projected to grow this year. Carleen Miller, executive direct...

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:10
Diversity in schools
Series: (w)indy
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Census figures indicate that Indianapolis’ population has grown 5 percent over the last decade, which is large part (83.4% of which) is due to the ...

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:03
Immigrant Latino youth activism
Series: (w)indy
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This past December, for the second time in the past five years, the DREAM Act did not become a reality. While the initial reaction for some Latino...

  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:06
School violence
Series: (w)indy
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Failing neighborhood schools often have neither the support nor resources to turn themselves around. Jesse Sharkey, Vice President of Chicago Teach...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:13
  • Purchases: 1
Dropouts
Series: (w)indy
From Y-Press
Caption: Y-Press Shayan Ahmad and Radio Arte Jen Martinez
Chicago Public Schools only graduates about half of its seniors each year. For some kids finding a school with a more personal touch is the key.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:22
School choice
Series: (w)indy
From Y-Press
Caption: Y-Press reporter Allison Albrecht and Radio Arte reporter Jerry Curz during a phone interview.
The Chicago public school system aims to educate half a million kids each year. At this time every year, eighth graders are choosing from career ac...

Bought by Public Radio Remix and YouthCast


  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:14
  • Purchases: 2
School innovations
Series: (w)indy
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Chicago Public Schools only graduates about half of its seniors each year. To engage kids and keep them in class, some schools are trying unique an...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:32
Gender and media
Series: Gender
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An Annenberg School for Communications 2006 study revealed that of 5,000 movie and TV speaking parts 71 percent were males and only 21 percent were...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:51
  • Purchases: 2
A girl on the football team?!
Series: Gender
From Y-Press
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In the 40 years since Title IX was enacted girls’ participation in high school and college sports has risen over 900 percent. Y-Press radio produce...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:06
  • Purchases: 1
Gender today, gender yesterday
Series: Gender
From Y-Press
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Y-Press 17-year-old journalist Tommaso Verderame talks with several experts on contemporary gender issues.

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:53
  • Purchases: 1
Transgender youth
Series: Gender
From Y-Press
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A recent New York Times article suggested that 2010 might be known as the year of the transsexual. The story identified many gender-bending images ...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, KGNU, and YouthCast


  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:03:18
  • Purchases: 3
Introduction: youth and gender
From Y-Press
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Gender roles don’t seem to have quite the pull they used to have. In 2008, the U.S. came close to having a woman in the Oval Office. Engineering sc...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:53
Digital natives
Series: Teens and media
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According to Wikipedia a digital native "is a person who was born after the general implementation of digital technology, and, as a result, has a f...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 00:02:55
  • Purchases: 1
Generation M
Series: Teens and media
From Y-Press
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Flipping the channels, beep beep just received a text, while checking facebook is a very real scene for many teens. Some are calling these media mu...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Public Radio Remix, and YouthCast


  • Added: Aug 27, 2010
  • Length: 00:03:04
  • Purchases: 3

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