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.
Teachers matter. A lot. Studies show that students with the ...
Teachers matter. A lot. Studies show that students with the best teachers learn three times as much as students with the worst teachers. Researchers say the achievement gap between poor children and their higher-income peers could disappear if poor kids got better teachers.
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As the weak economy continues to make jobs scarce, younger, ...
As the weak economy continues to make jobs scarce, younger, inexperienced workers are finding it difficult to land that mainstay of entry-level employment - the summer job.
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Producer Laurie Stern describes the new wave of foreclosures - ...
Producer Laurie Stern describes the new wave of foreclosures - not caused by sub-prime loans, but as a result of unemployment due to the recession.
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Economics Editor Chris Farrell argues that a coming economic recovery ...
Economics Editor Chris Farrell argues that a coming economic recovery will not bring with it a return to unsustainable excesses in consumption.
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Some scientists argue that behavioral science must play a substantial ...
Some scientists argue that behavioral science must play a substantial role in dealing with climate change. People are motivated by saving money, but financial incentives alone may not be enough to get people to change their behavior.
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John Biewen talks about his latest documentary on family farming ...
John Biewen talks about his latest documentary on family farming in the United States.
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John Biewen, director of the audio program at the Center ...
John Biewen, director of the audio program at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, recently edited Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, a book of essays by leading audio documentary makers.
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ARW is working on a new documentary called State of ...
ARW is working on a new documentary called State of Siege - Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement. The program is about the spectrum of white responses to the civil rights movement in Mississippi and how - for a time - extremists ran the state.
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Most climate scientists agree the earth's climate is changing and ...
Most climate scientists agree the earth's climate is changing and human activities are the cause. The biggest contributor to heat-trapping greenhouse gases is electricity production, and the fuel we're burning most to make electricity is coal.
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What should children learn in school? It's a question that's ...
What should children learn in school? It's a question that's stirred debate for decades, and in 1974 it led to violent protests in West Virginia. Schools were hit by dynamite, buses were riddled with bullets, and coal mines were shut down. The fight was over a new set of textbooks.
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