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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Kids and Data Mining
The government wants to collect data on America's children. And ...
The government wants to collect data on America's children. And that has parents across the country more than a little nervous.
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Inside the Common Core: Math
The second of a series on what's inside the Common ...
The second of a series on what's inside the Common Core State Standards. Last week we heard about the English Language Arts and Literacy portion; this week we talk to one of the lead authors of the standards for mathematics.
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Inside the Common Core: ELA
What do children need to know in school to be ...
What do children need to know in school to be prepared for the future? That's the question that drives a new set of national learning standards called the Common Core.This week: inside the standards for English Language Arts/Literacy.
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Military-Friendly Campuses
Members of the military and their spouses face more challenges ...
Members of the military and their spouses face more challenges than traditional students when it comes to getting a college degree. Their studies are often interrupted by deployments, transfer among bases, or because they can't attend college full-ti ...
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Is Coding Fundamental?
Next fall, dozens of school districts nationwide will offer new ...
Next fall, dozens of school districts nationwide will offer new computer coding classes. Advocates say computer programming is a fundamental kind of literacy, but critics argue the movement is a power play by tech companies who want schools to invest ...
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Sexual Assault on Campus
This spring, the Obama administration announced it was joining the ...
This spring, the Obama administration announced it was joining the effort to hold colleges and universities more accountable for sexual assaults on campus. We talk to a survivor and activist who filed a complaint against Yale when she was an undergra ...
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The Education Gender Gap
A new report says middle-schoolers who get Bs and Cs ...
A new report says middle-schoolers who get Bs and Cs are less likely to finish college than their peers who get As. And because more girls get As, girls are more likely than boys not only to go to college, but to graduate.
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College Bang for the Buck
For decades young people have been told that college is ...
For decades young people have been told that college is the path to prosperity. And research bears that out. But with the high cost of college tuition and fees, is a degree still worth it?
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The Kalamazoo Promise
In 2005, a group of philanthropists decided to fund a ...
In 2005, a group of philanthropists decided to fund a scholarship program for public high school graduates in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The idea is that more college graduates would strengthen the economy and the community of this small Midwestern city. N ...
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Degrees of Inequality
Higher education has long been an engine of social mobility ...
Higher education has long been an engine of social mobility in this country. But today's college choices may actually be widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots.
