All Pieces for KERA
Summer 2016 was filled with racial violence - from Minnesota to Louisiana, from Milwaukee to Dallas. And kids watched it all unfold on television d...
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 48:29
With little training under his belt, Nicholson Baker signed up to become a substitute teacher in Maine. As a part of KERA’s American Graduate initi...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 48:25
Like a lot of high school juniors, Ricky Rijos, Jr. of Flower Mound High is facing uncertainty. Ricky had dreams of playing basketball after high s...
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 05:02
Alex Gutierrez is a student at the International Leadership of Texas high school, a charter school in Garland. For Alex, math is a struggle. As jun...
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Since 2013, KERA has followed a group of students on the path to graduation. As they finish their junior year in high school, they’re making colleg...
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 48:30
Chance Hawkins has all the junior year challenges of his classmates at Fort Worth’s Dunbar High School. His personal challenge is even bigger – he’...
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 04:45
It’s crunch time for high school juniors to start figuring out what’s next after graduation. Kelli Bowdy already knows what she wants to do — she w...
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 04:43
The Class of ’17 — a group of students from across North Texas that KERA started following when they were in eighth grade — are now high school ju...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 11, 2016
- Length: 05:13
- Purchases: 1
Texas legislators are debating whether to repeal the Texas Dream Act. Signed by then-Governor Rick Perry in 2001, the law allows certain undocument...
Bought by WDBM
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 1
More than 230,000 students attend charter schools in Texas. And, on average, those students show less progress in reading and math than their peers...
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 02:22
For a kid with severe physical disabilities, having an aide at school can make a huge difference. It can affect whether a student stays in school o...
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 03:58
160. That was the number of homeless kids this past year in North Dallas High School. Homeless students are four times more likely to drop out, the...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 04:24
For more than 15 years, Charles ‘CJ’ Johnson has unofficially fostered homeless kids from North Dallas High School. He’s made his house their home ...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 04:53
Desmond is one of those students that schools like to brag about: He’s a runner, wrestler and drum major. He graduated from North Dallas High Schoo...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 05:54
Across Texas, almost every high school has homeless students. They’re often invisible to classmates. Invisible to teachers. They’re even invisible ...
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 06:00
For every exasperated teacher who feels like students have become surgically attached to smartphones, a new study from the Pew Research Center conf...
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 02:55
Stuart Spitzer, a Republican from Kaufman, kicked up a controversy about sex education during a recent marathon budget debate in the Texas House. H...
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 03:14
The federal government announced last week that it is investigating Dallas County for how it arrests and prosecutes students who miss school. More ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
Suspending rowdy students has long been a popular way for schools to keep order in their classrooms. New research shows that this punishment is cou...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 03:19
The Dallas Independent School District was recently commended by the National Athletic Trainers Association and the Youth Sports Safety Alliance fo...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 03:33
