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What's What Radio: Go Out and Play
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
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Why is the parenting phrase "go out and play, kids!" becoming endangered? Meredith Grimm wanted to ask how parents avoid both hovering and neglect ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 35:25
Kids Need the Same Teacher for More Than One Year
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Back to School stamp, Credit: iStock photo
In multi-year classrooms, teachers work with the same children for two years or longer. The result, according to founder and coordinator of Explora...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 18:42
Supermoms
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
Caption: Frimet Goldberger and her family
College can be tough but students who are also mothers have to balance work with real-life home work.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
The World According to Temple Grandin
From: SQRadio
Caption: On the Importance of Education!, Credit: Sheri Quinn
Temple Grandin is considered one of the 100 most influential people in the country. SQ Radio presents an interview with Temple Grandin at her home ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2011
  • Length: 24:56
OPEN SOURCE: Talking Poetry in Our Time with Nicholson Baker and Franz Wright
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
Caption: Nicholson Baker
Part of "Whose Words These Are," our look at poetry in our time: first Christopher Lydon in conversation with novelist Nicholson Baker, whose novel...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUT, WCAI / WNAN, WEOS, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
How Philosophy Can Save Your Life
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Book Cover
Changing our place in the world, through philosophy and math skills.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
Asian American Psychological Association fights racism
From: Mahi Palanisami
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A personal reflection about the Asian-American Psychological Conference.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2009
  • Length: 06:09
A Local Texas School with a Global Focus
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Caption: Teacher Kevin Gillion gives Spanish lessons, Credit: Ruxandra Guidi
Against a backdrop of failing public schools throughout the state of Texas, there is a new program at Austin High School showing new initiative. It...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 13, 2009
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
Rediscovering Religion at U.C. Berkeley
From: Berkeley J-School
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The Black Christian Ministry offers some UC Berkeley students a needed spiritual community.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 20, 2008
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Cost of College Textbooks
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Why do college textbooks cost so much?

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Apr 24, 2007
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
"Kill the Editor" by Kim Truong
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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There is an editor within each of us, and sometimes that editor needs to be killed. This poet is a student at Maine East High School (Park Ridge,...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:26
A Scientist Researches Near-Death Experiences
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Escaping death changes life

Bought by CKMO


  • Added: Nov 15, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
We Need More Teachers Like This
From: David Greenberger
Series: Growing Old In East L.A.
Caption: PRX default Piece image
David Orosco left school after third grade to work supporting his family. Here he recalls the importance of his elementary school teacher.

  • Added: Jun 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:44
Commentary: Going to School at Home
From: KRCC-FM
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Thoughts on the homeschooling movement

  • Added: Feb 24, 2006
  • Length: 04:43
Perinatal Hospice: Ethical Issues
From: Miles Eddy
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It’s not until we have to make choices that have no clear outcome that our ethics are challenged and we have to re-evaluate what we consider right ...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2005
  • Length: 07:01
A Prohibition
From: Terin Mayer
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Three students reflect on what it means to be "Black" at Carleton College

Bought by KUT, KFAI, WGBH Radio Boston, WBEZ, WXLV-FM and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 04:27
  • Purchases: 11
Freshmen Formations: Juan Medrano
From: Terin Mayer
Series: Carleton Audio Portraits
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Audio portrait of Juan Medrano, dance coach and member of the Carleton Class of 2009

  • Added: Nov 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:42
Living With Autism
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While the needs of an autistic child can overwhelm families, the latest evidence shows that early diagnosis and intesive therapy can help develop t...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jun 14, 2005
  • Length: 29:47
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Jonathan Katz, CEO of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in Washington, D.C
From: Hawaii Public Radio
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Interview with Jonathan Katz, CEO of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in Washington, D.C.

Bought by WHQR


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 1
Old Dogs, New Tricks
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Meet "The Pioneers", the first senior citizen group to participate in Odyssey of the Mind.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 27, 2005
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 1
Experiences With The "N" Word
From: Paul McDonald
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A double standard still exists for this racial epithet.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFAI, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Feb 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
The last wild place
From: Edward May
Series: Alaskan Life Portraits
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Wildlife cinemaphotographer Steve Kroschel tells us how his career began, his move to Alaska and about the wild creatures that share his home and l...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2004
  • Length: 19:34
Aprendemos Juntos (We Learn Together)
From: Jenn Blair
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Not a single Latino student has ever graduated from the high school in Long Prarie, Minnesota. We went to these Mexican youths to ask them why.

Bought by KGOU, KPFA, and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jul 19, 2004
  • Length: 30:40
  • Purchases: 3