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If you think we live in a post-racial world…think again: statistically speaking, being born Black or Latino or Native American is associated with s...
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 50:27
Doors opened at three state-run schools in Memphis this week. This is the first time Tennessee has stepped in and completely taken charge of the da...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 03:51
A coalition of students, faculty and staff at Indiana University are scheduled to walk out of work and class later this week in a two-day universit...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 09:14
Reginald Mason remembers growing up in Harlem with his mother during the 1970s.
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 01:57
The Walk to School is an audio documentary about a Minneapolis family’s decision to attend public school outside its immediate residential zone. Pr...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Songs and my rants about the heart and soul of New Orleans plus the usual (unusual?) music you never heard by musicians you've never heard of.
- Added: Jan 27, 2013
- Length: 02:40:52
New York State has the worst high school graduation rate in the country, according to a recent study by the Schott Foundation for Public Education....
- Added: Jan 16, 2013
- Length: 06:18
In 2011, about 82 percent of San Francisco’s students graduated from high school. Ten percent dropped out. Break it down by ethnic group and the nu...
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 08:17
Twenty-three-year-old Tierra Jackson talks to John Horan, the president of her high school, about what her life was like when they first met.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
- Purchases: 1
Infant mortality rates in Michigan are better than they used to be, but still not good enough.
Seven out of every 1,000 babies born in Michigan w...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 51:01
10/11/12: Prudence L. Carter is an associate professor of in the School of Education and (by courtesy) the Department of Sociology at Stanford Univ...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
American and South Africa’s schools are similar. Both have fallen short of producing an educational system consistent with its national goals of e...
- Added: Aug 24, 2012
- Length: 14:46
THE DROP OUT DILEMMA IS SPECIAL CONVERSATION ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN THE ROCHESTER AREA. THE WXXI NEWS TEAM HAS BEEN TAKING AN IN-DEPT...
- Added: Aug 22, 2012
- Length: 58:57
The importance of mentoring is evident at Francis Parker.
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 02:31
A high school student and recent graduate detail their struggles staying in school and what pushed them to persevere.
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 42:54
Sondra Samuels of North Side Achievement Zone and Eric Mahmoud of Seed Academy and and Harvest Preparatory School discuss solutions and impact to t...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 59:07
The series from the WUNC Youth Radio Institute concludes with a story from Fontezia Walker.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:35
The WUNC Summer Youth Radio Institute continues with a story from 19-year-old Jasmine Farmer.
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:29
Second installment from WUNC's Summer Youth Radio Institute
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 06:17
In the summer of 2012 WUNC established its first ever Youth Radio Institute. The station hired five young people -- and two mentors -- to produce r...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:57
To be black and male in America carries with it a certain baggage. Two out of three black male students in Rochester are failing to graduate. "Need...
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 27:10
American Graduate: A poetry program in Durham is using rhythm and rhyme to keep kids from making the choice to drop out of school.
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 05:19
- Purchases: 1
WUNC is a part of the American Graduate Project. It's a public media initiative looking at the drop out crisis across the country. As a part of thi...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 10:23
- Purchases: 1
Dave DeWitt reports on a school in Durham that is helping at-risk kids graduate from high school.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 15, 2012
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
