American Public Media

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American Public Media is one of the nation's premier public radio producers, bringing you over 20 national public radio programs and specials. 14.7 million people listen to American Public Media programs each week.

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Keyboard College: How Technology is Revolutionizing Higher Education
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: Gary Hotsfall, a student at Western Governor’s University Washington. WGU is a network of nonprofit online universities., Credit: Stephen Smith
Digital technologies are changing how many Americans go to college - from online courses to robo-tutors. Can these innovations make college cheaper...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
The Rise of Phoenix: For-Profit Universities Shake Up the Academy
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix
The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Grit, Luck and Money: Preparing Kids for College and Getting Them Through
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cheryl Rogowski: Farm-to-Plate Innovator
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
Caption: Cheryl Rogowski, Farmer and MacArthur "Genius"
Where does our food come from? Since we pay close attention to so many aspects of food in the holiday season, host Majora Carter visits Cheryl Rogo...

Bought by WZEN.org, KZYX, North Country Public Radio, and WUIS


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Marla Spivak: Think Like a Bee
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
Caption: Marla Spivak, Bee Researcher and MacArthur "Genius"
When you sit down at your holiday table, thank a bee. A third of the food on your plate is made possible by these pollinators, whose numbers are be...

Bought by WUIS, WCAI / WNAN, KLCC, KZYX, WCPN and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Who Needs an English Major? The Future of Liberal Arts Education
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: The campus of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., founded in 1874. , Credit: Steve Woit, courtesy of Macalester College.
The most popular college major in America these days is business. Does it pay to study liberal arts? (9/8/2011)

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WUIS


  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: College students in a Maryland science class. Some professors are abandoning the traditional lecture because research suggests it's not very effective, but lecture classes are still common. , Credit: Emily Hanford
Most college students spend a lot of time listening to lectures. But research shows there are better ways to learn. (9/1/2011)

Bought by KZYX, WFIU, and WUIS


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Some College, No Degree: Why So Many Americans Drop Out of College, and What to Do About It
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: A student picks up new job skills at the Tennessee Technology Center in Murfreesboro, a technical school where many people who have quit college go to improve their chances in an increasingly competitive economy. , Credit: Doug Strickland
37 million Americans are college dropouts. What wlll it take to get them back? (8/25/2011)

Bought by KWIT and WUIS


  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sharon Hanshaw: Leading Out of the Ruins
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Before Katrina, Sharon Hanshaw owned a beauty salon and lived in a house on a tree-lined street. All that all changed when the hurricane hit Biloxi...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, KOSU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Reimagining a New Way of Life
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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New Orleans East is home to the most-dense ethnically Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam. In the Gulf region, about 80 percent of Vietnamese ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, KGNU, Vermont Public Radio, WTIP, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Wilma Subra: Chemistry of the Aftermath
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Chemist Wilma Subra has spent her career defending local communities against Louisiana’s powerful oil and gas industry. Since the Deepwater Horizon...

Bought by Vermont Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KOSU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Nat Turner: Planting Seeds for a Lifetime
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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For Nat Turner, garden rakes and shovels are tools for transformation. He's transformed an old store in New Orlean's Lower Ninth Ward into an urba...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, New Hampshire Public Radio, Vermont Public Radio, North Country Public Radio, KOSU and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Kyshun Webster: Reaching for Greatness
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Dr. Kyshun Webster is a man who gets things done. And before that, he was a kid who got things done. Now the founder and executive director of Oper...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, Vermont Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WFIU, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Put to the Test
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: Students take a standardized test at a high school in Greensboro, North Carolina., Credit: Billy Barnes
There’s been a dramatic change in public education over the past 10 years and it’s all about numbers. (9/6/2007)

Bought by KERA, Marfa Public Radio, WAMU, KZYX, KWIT and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Rising by Degrees
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: Students on their graduation day from Montgomery College, a community college in Maryland. Most young Latinos looking for a way up through higher education choose community college, but a lot of them never make it to graduation day. , Credit: Emily Hanford
Young Latinos are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and they are among the least likely to graduate from college. (11/5/2009)

Bought by KQED, KZYX, Nevada Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Early Lessons
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: A student in a preschool classroom at River Breeze Elementary, a public school in Palatka, Florida. Preschool used to be a radical idea, but now the majority of American children go to preschool. , Credit: Stephen Smith
There’s been a quiet revolution in America’s schools over recent decades. We’ve added an extra grade to a child’s education: Preschool. (10/29/2009)

Bought by KUNM, 90.5 WSNC, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Testing Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Focus on Education
Caption: Teacher Joe Curtis working with a student at Hardy Elementary School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Credit: Emily Hanford
Kids need good teachers. It’s something people know instinctively. But experts disagree over how to measure teacher quality. (8/26/2010)

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KZYX, WBEZ, 90.5 WSNC, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
Caption: White students protest integration at the University of Mississippi in 1962. No state in the South was more resistant to the struggle for black equality. , Credit: Photograph by Flip Schulke/CORBIS
Mississippi occupies a distinct and dramatic place in the history of America’s civil rights movement. No state in the South was more resistant to t...

Bought by KOSU, Interlochen Public Radio, WJSU, WESM 91.3 FM, and WRPI


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
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"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

Bought by KLCC, KFAI, KGOU, WLRN, Interlochen Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Winona LaDuke
From: American Public Media
Series: The Promised Land
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Winona LaDuke has spent decades working on issues of renewable energy, health, and environmental justice on northern Minnesota's White Earth Reserv...

Bought by KZYX, KBRP Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KWIS 88.3 FM, KVMR and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11

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Staff of American Public Media

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Chris Kohtz (Admin)
Director -- American Public Media www.apmstations
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Nick Kereakos (Admin)
Managing Director, Broadcast Production and Operations
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Chris Kohtz (Admin)
Director
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Sasha Aslanian
Producer/Reporter
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Emily Torgrimson
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Sarah Dittbenner (Admin)
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Steve Griffith
Broadcast Coordinator
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Andrew Cleveland (Admin)
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Suzanne Pekow
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