Just 20 percent of college-goers fit the stereotype of being young, single, full-time students who finish a degree in four years. College students today are more likely to be older, part-time, working, and low-income than they were three decades ago. Many are the first in their families to go to college. This American RadioWorks…
There’s plenty of controversy surrounding the Common Core, a new set of education standards adopted by most states. Getting less attention is what the standards actually say, and the fact that many teachers like them. This American RadioWorks documentary takes listeners into classrooms to explore how the standards are changing teaching and learning. Many teachers…
Until recently, we didn’t know much about the best ways to learn. Now that’s changing. Over recent decades, experts working in cognitive science, psychology, and neuroscience have opened new windows into how the brain works, and how we can learn to learn better. In this American RadioWorks program, we look at some of the big…
This hour: where kids go to get away; from themselves, their troubles, the rules they’re supposed to follow, and of course, their parents. Of Kith and Kids by Erin Davis (Transom.org, 2013) Producer Erin Davis takes us to a very unusual “adventure playground” called The Land. Kids adore it for its lack of rules, regulations…
The war between the United States and Vietnam cost over 58,000 American and more than one million Vietnamese lives. It left one country physically devastated and the other socially splintered. It began, President Lyndon Johnson told the world, with an “unprovoked attack” on American ships on the night of August 4, 1964. What we know…
Are humans basically selfish, or basically giving? There’s a widespread assumption that you have to offer people incentives to do good deeds and threaten punishment to stop them from doing evil deeds. But the way people act in the real world contradicts that idea. Humans may actually have been shaped by evolution to care…
Andrew Forsthoefel set out at age 23 to walk across America, East to West, 4000 miles, with a sign on him that said, “Walking to Listen”. This hour, co-produced with Jay Allison, tracks his epic journey. It’s a coming of age story, and a portrait of this country – big-hearted, wild, innocent, and wise. From…
As the U.S. population ages (there are now more Americans 65 and older than at any other time in history), the need for care giving is increasing. There are nursing homes, convalescent hospitals, and professional in-home services, but the backbone of long term care in this country is the family. One in three adults…
Reveal: Unraveling the mysteries of the GI Bill, Coast Guard and EPA Who’s really benefiting from the GI Bill? Why does the U.S.Coast Guard have some explaining to do? How much arsenic in our water is actually safe? There’s always more to the story. “Reveal,” the radio show dedicated to investigative reporting, is back.…
We look at the much-contested right to vote in America: from slaves freed after the Civil War, to women’s suffrage, to the civil rights movement, to today’s debate over whether voters should be required to show ID at the polls. In The Right to Vote, we hear diverse voices and views, plus archival audio, on the long…
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