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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard and Eunice introduce each other to their families and begin plans for a June wedding. Richard finds a job and is ordained. Driving north ou...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 23:48
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Part Two - Generational discussion with author Colin Woodard

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Artwork by Richard Creps
Richard faces the uncertainty of college life and its requirements. And his heavy New York accent marks him as an outsider at the College of Wooster.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2013
  • Length: 19:47
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Sound is a vital though invisible aspect of human existence. “EarthTones” gives its audience the opportunity to experience the natural world throug...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 26:03
  • Purchases: 1
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In the 40 years since Our Bodies, Ourselves was first published by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, the book has been both praised and ba...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kate Rosenberger@Dog Eared Books, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
Be it a curmudgeonly Galwegian on the West coast of Ireland, an erudite scholar in Dublin or a literary motorcyclist 'flower child' of San Francisc...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 56:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Brina keeps this audio journal of her first year at Brown University. “I have this weird sense that anybody I meet I might never see again. And al...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:06
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
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The 1952 presidential campaign pitted the immensely popular General Dwight D. Eisenhower against the ferociously intellectual and intensely private...

Bought by Public Radio Remix, WDET, Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: MIke Smith
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:25
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In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2012
  • Length: 56:00
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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
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Youth-produced content that deals with increased punishments over the years that may intimidate students and influence them to drop out.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 10:08

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 12:29

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:59
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Dr. Damon Arnold, Education Director, Grand Valley State University

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:22

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 10:09

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 14:57
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Susan Ledy and Lindsay McHome, Literacy Center of West Michigan.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 18:14

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:35
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Tony Campbell, VP United Way West Michigan & Mary Ann Prisichenko, Sibley Elementary School.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 18:50
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Dr. Bernard Taylor, Superintendent of Grand Rapids Public Schools.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:35

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 17:11
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Carol Paine-McGovern and Shatawn Brigham, Kent School Services Network.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 15:09