American Radio Works
American Public Media's American RadioWorks creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet. American RadioWorks releases documentaries in the spring and fall.
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The Utility of a PhD
Humanities professors at colleges and universities are re-thinking what it ...
Humanities professors at colleges and universities are re-thinking what it means to offer a PhD. The old model is proving unsustainable. It takes an average nine years to get a doctorate, but less than 60 percent of PhDs are finding tenure-track teac ...
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The First Family of Radio
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he ...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt both used the new medium of radio to reach into American homes like never before. They rallied the nation to combat the Great Depression and fight fascism. ...
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What's unfair about college grad rates
Our guest says the way graduation rates are calculated is ...
Our guest says the way graduation rates are calculated is not fair to low-income, first generation college-goers or to the institutions that serve them. (Like his.)
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How to help students hope
A polling expert finds students less engaged with school as ...
A polling expert finds students less engaged with school as they get older. Brandon Busteed from Gallup Education says if schools taught to strengths instead of weaknesses, more students would be successful in school and in life.
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Making it stick
Why do we remember some things, and forget others? That's ...
Why do we remember some things, and forget others? That's what author Peter Brown and psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel set out to answer in their new book Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning.
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What teachers need
Education correspondent Emily Hanford talks with author Elizabeth Green about ...
Education correspondent Emily Hanford talks with author Elizabeth Green about her new book, Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone).
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Intelligence is achievable and other lessons from The Teacher Wars
Education correspondent Emily Hanford continues her conversation with Dana Goldstein, ...
Education correspondent Emily Hanford continues her conversation with Dana Goldstein, author of The Teacher Wars.
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Teaching: The most embattled profession
Education correspondent Emily Hanford talks with bestselling author Dana Goldstein ...
Education correspondent Emily Hanford talks with bestselling author Dana Goldstein about her new book, The Teacher Wars.
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Video games: New literacy for a complex world
Author James Paul Gee says video games are problems to ...
Author James Paul Gee says video games are problems to solve that come with their own tools. He says they're like "an external mind," and teachers should use them in classrooms.
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Ed researchers: Colleges can do more for students, especially in a bad economy
College is worth the investment. College graduates can't find good ...
College is worth the investment. College graduates can't find good jobs. Student loan debt keeps rising, and now tops a trillion dollars. What can be done?
