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Today marks the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, and Arizona's role in assimilating Native children continues casting a dark cloud on the Southwest.
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Researchers at Arizona’s public universities are partnering with the mining community to find new ways to reuse copper mining waste rock.
Sept. 29, 2023
Do you ever wonder what your kid's teacher is thinking? This week, we're hearing from Arizona educators for the latest collection in our SOAPBOX series, where listeners tell their own true stories. Next up is Lisa Scinto.
Sept. 29, 2023
Northern Arizona University has announced it’s designing a new medical school intended to prepare doctors for primary-care work in the state’s rural, underserved and Indigenous communities.
Sept. 29, 2023
President Joe Biden was in Phoenix on Thursday to give the fourth speech in a series of addresses warning that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country's democratic institutions.
Sept. 28, 2023
Scientists at the University of Arizona are looking ahead to the space telescopes of the future, which they believe will have a main fundamental difference from what’s been used up until now.
Sept. 28, 2023
Do you ever wonder what your kid's teacher is thinking? This week, we're hearing from Arizona educators for the latest collection in our SOAPBOX series, where listeners tell their own true stories. Next up is high school teacher Anita Walters.
Sept. 28, 2023
Five decades after the passage of Title IX, women’s sports are more popular than ever. And here in Arizona, girls have a new opportunity to compete in a sport previously only available to the boys: flag football.
Sept. 28, 2023
A northwest Valley school board member is accusing the district she represents of violating her First Amendment rights on religion and free speech. Heather Rooks wants a federal judge to declare that it's legal for her to quote Bible verses while making general comments at Peoria Unified school board meetings.
Sept. 27, 2023
With gridlock persisting in Washington, a government shutdown is looking more and more likely ahead of Saturday night's deadline.
Sept. 27, 2023
Even before COVID-19 setbacks, the Nation’s Report Card scored only one-third of U.S. fourth graders, and one-quarter of eighth graders, as proficient in math. Arizona rates follow close behind. This week, political leaders and education experts met to discuss possible solutions.
Sept. 27, 2023
Do you ever wonder what your kid's teacher is thinking? This week, we're hearing from Arizona educators for the latest collection in our SOAPBOX series, where listeners tell their own true stories.
Sept. 27, 2023
The Department of the Interior has launched an oral history project to document the country’s dark legacy of abuse against Native children in its boarding schools.
Sept. 26, 2023
The Show spoke with "Reservation Dogs" actor and author of "Tribal Force" Jon Proudstar about where the idea for his historic comic came from, and what his new plans are.
Sept. 26, 2023
The Show spoke with teacher-librarian Jean Kilker about what she makes of an Iowa school district using artificial intelligence to determine which books shouldn't be on the shelves.
Sept. 26, 2023
Do you ever wonder what your kid's teacher is thinking? This week, we're hearing from Arizona educators for the latest collection in our SOAPBOX series, where listeners tell their own true stories.
Sept. 26, 2023
On this episode of Word,”poets and storytellers have an opportunity to perform in the Valley, plus we feature young adult travel and romance set in Arizona, as well as a YA fantasy/romance rooted in dark magic.
Sept. 26, 2023
The Show spoke with former Arizona schools Superintendent Kathy Hoffman about whether there's a consensus about what kind of calendar and schedule are best for students.
Sept. 25, 2023
Arizona continues to face a massive teacher shortage, according to a new survey by the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association.
Sept. 25, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education is forgiving $37 million in federal student loans borrowed by roughly 1,200 people who went to University of Phoenix. And the department is still approving applications from those who the Federal Trade Commission says were hoodwinked into enrolling about a decade ago.
Sept. 22, 2023
The Show spoke with Lisa Graham Keegan, an education consultant, former state schools superintendent, and senior education fellow at the Common Sense Institute, about Tom Horne's decision to take back millions of federal COVID-19 relief dollars from schools.
Sept. 21, 2023