After learning of the bike shop's impending eviction, R.U.B.A.R.B. (Rusted Up Beyond All Recognition Bikes) volunteers share their memories and discuss possible future locations. (more)

When you ask someone an impossible question, be prepared to listen closely for your answer. (more)

About 12,000 students drop out of Chicago Public Schools each year despite efforts by administrators and teachers to keep them on track. (more)

This hour: we head back to high school. For better or for worse. (more)

Bing Fu is an ESL teacher in Toronto, and she tells her story about misunderstanding a word in spite of looking it up in the dictionary. (more)

The first in an occasional audio documentary series exploring the history, people, places and traditions of North Shore Country Day School (NSCDS) in Winnetka, IL. (more)

A satirical collision of Indiana history and standardized testing. (more)

A heroin overdose left Jade Bell blind, mute and unable to care for himself. Now Bell tours high schools in British Columbia, where his computerized “voice” speaks a loud warning to thousands of students. (more)

Esme Cordell shares a year's worth of classroom anecdotes and musings, culled from a journal kept throughout her first year teaching in Chicago. (more)

A few late students help us understand why the classroom is a special place. (more)

In America's high schools, students are playing a game whose only rule is to break the rules. (more)

A principal reflects on a turbulent year: 27 current or former students shot, 8 of them dead. (more)

This hour: the halls of a high school and the alleys of one of the oldest cities in the world. (more)

Most of us go to college to make our dreams happen, but what do you do when what you want might not be the same as what your parents want? (more)

Jaimita Haskell was given the opportunity to take advanced classes at her high school, an experience she found stimulating and rewarding. (more)

American schools teach students that with hard work, they can realize their dreams. But this isn't the case for everyone. (more)

Karla Saavedra, 17, moved to Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood from Mexico two years ago. (more)

I challenged my neighbors to a good old fashioned college chant off! (more)

This hour: one woman’s comments at a school board meeting in Kanawa County, West Virginia, become a catalyst for deep division within the school district, the county, the state, and the entire country. (more)

When Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on students during a war demonstration on the Kent State University Campus in May, 1970, four young lives were ended and a nation was stunned. (more)