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Caption: Promotional picture from the Video Project, Credit: http://www.videoproject.com/roomtobreathe.html
At overcrowded and underfunded public schools across the country high suspension rates are exacerbating existing achievement gaps. Often, chaos in ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 23, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Around the world, students have been taking to the streets. They’re opposed to rising tuition fees and cuts to education. On this edition, we’ll ...

Bought by KAWC


  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Future Docs Peter Kaminski and Sarah Rapoport, Credit: RIPR
Meet Sarah Rapoport and Peter Kaminski, second year medical students we're following as part of our year-long series, Future Docs.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 07:40

  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 06:29
  • Purchases: 2
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At the Reiche School, you'll never be sent to the principal's office.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:05
  • Purchases: 1
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A woman reflects on her decision to give up equestrianism and go to college.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
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A man shares his decision to drop out of his PhD program.

  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:28
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Using shellfish to build confidence in middle schoolers.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WMPG, KUT, Public Radio Remix, WAMC and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 6
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Two young women build a robot.

Bought by WMPG and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 04:52
  • Purchases: 2
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Coastal Studies for Girls is a hands-on marine science and leadership program for sophomores in high school. But for 15-year-old Laura, it’s more ...

Bought by WMPG, KUOW, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Mackenton Louis reads to a group of kids at Lycee Toussaint L'Ouverture in Port-au-Prince, Credit: Judith Scherr/Learning Matters
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 07:52
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Among Detroit’s many problems: a public school system so deep in debt that last year, the state took it over. Michigan’s governor hired Robert Bob...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 08:18
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One actor from the cast of the new HBO television show "Treme" is doing more than just acting.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
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University of Tennessee graduate Kady Amundson’s days rarely end when school is over. At the start of her Teach for America assignment, her school ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:16
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Meet Harvard graduate Colleston Morgan. His first two years as a Teach for America teacher were highly successful. So why did he leave the classro...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Jeylan Erman graduated from Princeton. She enrolled in Teach for America, worked hard and really wanted to be a role model. So why didn’t she get t...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:47
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Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:41
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Meet Yale graduate Daniel Hoffman. He entered Teach for America with high hopes, but one year later, Daniel was out of the classroom. Sometimes eve...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 06:14
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Meet Tulane graduate Bayoji Akingbola. On paper, he was the perfect Teach for America candidate. But even the best teacher needs support. Was Bayoj...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2010
  • Length: 05:11
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Deputy Superintendent Michael Haggen discusses how new programs are helping students in New Orleans' alternative schools develop a voice.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 05:06
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Khalil Osiris’ “Circle of Courage” is one strategy the Booker T. Washington middle school is using to try and help students stay out of trouble and...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2010
  • Length: 07:30
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Who invented radio? Marconi or Tesla? 90% of people get this wrong. Find out by attending the Supreme Court trial in 1943. The answer will surp...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: 49:13
Caption: Kelsey Hernandez walks from teacher housing to Chevak School on a cold mid- April morning., Credit: Rosey Robards
ATMI reporter Kelsey Hernandez traveled with five Colony Middle School students to Chevak, Alaska. Adam Rose-Levy interviews her about her experi...

Bought by Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Jan 12, 2010
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 1