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100 Best Books for Children

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/100-Best-Books-for-Children.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/2/2004 100 Best Books for Children Transcript The summer is getting along, and the children around you have probably played those favorite videos and video games at least a million times. And if they’re played out and swum out and malled out, then it […]

Linda Brown You Are Not Alone

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Linda-Brown-You-Are-Not-Alone.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 5/17/2004 Linda Brown You Are Not Alone Transcript Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which legally ended segregation in the public schools of Topeka, Kansas, as well as the rest of the United […]

Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chicago-Humanities-Festival.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/24/2003 Chicago Children’s Humanities Festival Transcript The other good reason to be in Chicago with your children over the next two weeks is the city’s Children’s Humanities Festival, which begins this weekend with the presentation of the Chicago Tribune’s Young Adult Book Prize. This […]