All Pieces for KERA
High school seniors are told early and often to fill out a free application for federal student aid - typically called a FAFSA - to help them pay f...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 03:21
There's a new after-school club in Denton ISD where kids can play computer games. But, they're not just staring like zombies into screens. This is ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 03:17
KERA's Krys Boyd and Stella Chavez sit down for a one-hour radio special that features stories from the American Graduate: Generation One series.
- Added: Apr 20, 2015
- Length: 53:35
Growing up in a traditional immigrant family can be rewarding and challenging for kids born in the United States. Meet a Frisco high school student...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 05:24
There's an innovative school in Fort Worth school district with about 500 students. Not one of them has been in the U.S. more than a year or two. I...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 05:10
Julian Vasquez Heilig has spent years studying how schools educate immigrants. He's a professor at California State University, Sacramento. He prev...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 03:22
A decade ago, about 600 Chinese students attended high school in the United States. Today, there are more than 38,000. For many, this is their firs...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 05:47
In recent decades, demographic changes have transformed school districts in North Texas. Schools have also transformed the way they teach English -...
- Added: Apr 17, 2015
- Length: 05:22
Dilcia M Ascencio Mazariegos can relate to many of the Central American kids coming to Texas. In her case, she wasn't escaping gang violence. The b...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
Generation One, part of KERA's American Graduate initiative, looks at the challenges faced by immigrant children. This hour, Krys Boyd talks to a p...
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 48:36
Teenagers are heavy users of social media that keeps their thoughts, actions, and whereabouts private, a stark reversal from five years ago when th...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 02:49
- Purchases: 1
Here’s a question. Do you know the difference between your amygdala and the hippocampus? There’s a group of 3 year olds in Oak Cliff who do.
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 03:07
Research shows that the summer break takes a toll on learning. Either kids aren't doing much of it at home or they don't have access to education p...
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 03:30
Immigration is transforming Texas and its big city suburbs. Take the Grapevine-Colleyville school district, which in the last decade has seen its o...
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 05:03
David Kapuku enrolled at Conrad High School two weeks after arriving from the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013. He and his siblings say those f...
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 04:59
A quarter of Dallas adults never graduated from high school. The Dallas Public Library hopes to change that with a new GED testing center unveiled ...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 01:49
North Dallas High School is home to about 100 homeless kids because it’s near three homeless shelters and organizations that serve families in need...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 02:27
A brother and sister in their 20s finished high school last month in Richardson even though learning disabilities slowed them down. They got high s...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Almost 90 percent of high school students in Texas graduate from high school, although there is large variation by race, ethnicity, family income, ...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 02:31
Going off to college seems like the American dream for first-generation, low-income students. But not if they drop out with loads of debt a few yea...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 03:52
