Category: Voices Young and Old
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Adults Learning to Read
$0.00 Add to cartAbout half of American adults read at or below a 6th-grade level. What challenges do they face – at work, in health care, when helping children with schoolwork? And how does the profusion of low-information voters affect our democracy?
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Aging Gracefully
$2.95 Add to cartThe human survival instinct prods us to outlast afflictions and, if circumstances permit, to reach old age. Nothing, of course, could be more quintessentially natural than aging. Physician Andrew Weil gives his views on healthy longevity in which older people come to accept the challenges and discover the rewards of aging, plus a look at Okinawa home to the highest percentage on earth of people who live to be 100.
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Aging in Community
$0.00 Add to cart70 million Baby Boomers are now entering their retirement years. For the first time in history, there will be more older adults than children. On this special project from Humankind public radio, you’ll hear stories of transition and dignity — and meet people who are showing the way.
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Collegiate Community Service
$2.95 Add to cartHoping to imbue students with values that transcend traditional academic content, many colleges now offer “service learning” programs where students gain valuable real-life experience in efforts to help the community.
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Conflict Resolution with Tajae Gaynor
$2.95 Add to cartYouth leader Tajae Gaynor of the Bronx has dedicated his life to conflict resolution and school mediation activities after he witnessed the senseless stabbing of a friend.
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Gimme Five
$0.00 Add to cartBack in 1994, at his home/studio in Chicago, Ken Nordine and I worked together on a project we called The Gimme Five Show – intended as a fantastical, fun way to entice young people to eat well. Not a Humankind program, this special production was funded by the National Institutes of Health. Ken -a master of audio imagination- conjured up “the world’s largest ever” salad big enough to serve the entire population of Chicago, including 250 tons of garbanzo beans among other ingredients. We also hear chef Julia Child, singer-songwriter Chrissie Hynde, comedian Phil Hartman (honoring that great spinach-eater Popeye), football great Herschel Walker and others. It eventually led to our project The Vegetable Chronicles.
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Giving Youth a Voice
$2.95 Add to cartBarbara Cervone, a lifelong educator who started a network of small schools and later became a grantmaker involved in investing hundreds of millions of dollars in public schools, undertook a new venture in 2001. She founded What Kids Can Do as a national effort to amplify the voices of young people.
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The Good Classroom with Mike Rose
$2.95 Add to cartUCLA education professor and author Mike Rose believes we disserve youth by narrowing the focus of public education to whether schools train their students to be competitive members of the work force.
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Harlem Renaissance
$2.95 Add to cartGeoffrey Canada designated a crime-ridden 24-block area of New York as the Harlem Children’s Zone and works tirelessly to provide a healthier community for kids who are otherwise vulnerable to developmental and social ills.
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High School Pressure-Cooker
$2.95 Add to cartThis episode examines the level of stress experienced by many secondary school students in America. We probe the causes and effects. And we look at positive coping skills kids can learn and ideas on how to restructure…
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High School Tolerance and Optimism
$2.95 Add to cartHigh school and college-aged winners of the Laws of Life essay contest tell personal stories about tolerance, optimism, family and other values they feel are essential to leading a life of meaning and integrity.
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High Stakes Testing
$2.95 Add to cartWith the movement to “opt out” of high-stakes standardized tests gaining traction in schools among students, parents and educators, we consider alternative ways to evaluate when education is effective.
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Human Growth in Old Age
$2.95 Add to cartLois Harris, a Massachusetts-based consultant on the aging process, gives a life-affirming description of the cycles of growth and renewal.
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Meeting Hate with Love: Stories of King and Gandhi
$0.00 Add to cartThis documentary features recent interviews with associates of Martin Luther King Jr. and his role model, Mahatma Gandhi, on their philosophy of nonviolent social change, plus archival audio.
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Peace Camp
$2.95 Add to cartWe travel to a summer camp on a sparkling lake in Maine where teenagers from Israel and Palestine, as well as other conflict regions around the world, play sports, dine and bunk together and become friends.
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Playwrights Becoming Free
$2.95 Add to cartChicago dramatist Meade Palidofsky uses theater as a therapeutic tool in her work with juvenile offenders who write and perform plays while incarcerated — and in the process see their lives through a new lens.
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Reflections on Dying
$2.95 Add to cartIn this sensitive sound portrait, persons who are dying and those who provide counseling to them are heard pondering the questions of life and death from a realistic perspective. Featured is Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and others.
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The Science of Gratitude
$2.95 Add to cartNew research suggests that people who actively cultivate gratitude in their lives become both more content and physically healthier, but Oakland, California writer Catherine Price wanted to find out for herself.
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South Carroll High, Part 1: Voluntary service and tolerance
$2.95 Add to cartWe visit a Sykesville, Maryland high school with a broad commitment to non-sectarian “character education” that aims to produce morally responsible citizens.
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Spiritual Lessons from Family Life
$2.95 Add to cartErnie Boyer Jr., author of “A Way in the World: Family Life as Spiritual Discipline,” along with his wife Pam discuss how intimacy with God can be found during ordinary moments of caring for a child.
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YES! Camp
$2.95 Add to cartAs summer camp season begins, we travel to a program led by Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) where kids gather to learn, have fun and support each other in their quest for a more sustainable planet.