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In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 03:47
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 03:47
Playworks is a national non-profit based in Oakland with the goal of bringing “organized play” to schools. But what exactly is “organized play”? An...
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- Length: 03:20
A robotics competition for 9- to 14-year-olds is a sneaky way to get kids excited about science. Allison Quantz followed one team into competition ...
- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 02:45
A one-hour magazine program with four interviews that reveal some alternative slices of America, including a travelogue of gross and strange attrac...
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- Added: Nov 15, 2012
- Length: 46:00
- Purchases: 1
As public schools face repeated budget cuts, many people focus on the effects on teachers, academics, and extracurricular activities. While these a...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 09:01
Public school students and parents are seeing some changes this year in the way their schools handle bullying. That’s because of a law passed by th...
- Added: Jan 24, 2012
- Length: 05:06
This is an optional second segment, which can be added to Part 1, for a package nearing 26 mins in length. In the second segment, Tiny Spark host, ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 06:55
At this New Hampshire high school, it took a professional chef to get kids to eat healthy food.
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 05:34
(To air the week of June 18,2011)
According the U.N. World Food Program there are now more than a billion people in the world who are in urgent n...
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 28:00
Professor Michael Wessells of Columbia University takes us beyond war news. What are the true stresses faced by people in war zones and refugees? B...
- Added: Jun 14, 2011
- Length: 11:31
(To air the week of June 11, 2011). An orphanage in Afghanistan for descendants of Genghis Khan… …teenage refugees sing peace but get death threats...
Bought by 88.5 JAZZ FM Erie's Jazz Station
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
(For air the week of June 11, 2011) Stop at a red light in Mexico and chances are young children will approach your car selling food, trinkets, or ...
Bought by KUMD and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 2
Okay, you're on the road in Pakistan and your car breaks down. You pull into the nearest auto garage and an eight-year old kid comes out to look u...
- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 28:00
Americans are struggling with high unemployment rates, but in Somaliland, it's closer to 90 percent.
This week, the World Vision Report takes you t...
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- Added: May 19, 2011
- Length: 01:50:25
- Purchases: 1
Public Service Announcement on the growing problem of bullying in America.
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: :30
It's all about giving this week on the World Vision Report: giving time, talents, and resources to help others around the world.
From dolls going t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2010
- Length: 28:00
In Washington, at D.C.'s Sixth and I Synagogue, toddlers are taking their first steps, attending their first services and singing their first Jewis...
- Added: Nov 15, 2010
- Length: 06:22
Families in the low-income community of Holyoke, MA -- who successfully lost weight through a community clinic program -- are trying to share their...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 3
This feature profiles a 9-year-old girl named Kihuanna who, at 4 foot one and 139 pounds, has a body mass index twice what it should be. With the h...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 3
One health center in Holyoke, MA addresses the 50 percent rate of overweight and obese children in this predominantly low-income, Puerto Rican comm...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and Iowa Public Radio
- Added: Jul 16, 2010
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 3
What I learned about life from my dog when I was eight years old.
- Added: Jul 02, 2010
- Length: 03:00
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
Non-profit Puentes New Orleans reaches out to New Orlean's Latino community.
- Added: Mar 29, 2010
- Length: 03:25
This two-part series examines the debate by world-class scientists if a connection between tics, Tourette's, obsessive-compulsive disorder and ext...
- Added: Mar 26, 2010
- Length: 20:30
