Reclassing, when a student repeats an academic year by choice, is a popular way for kids trying to land a spot in a top college athletics program. But it can also come with some heavy costs. Today on the show, we explore the reclassing phenomenon and pressures kids and their parents face in a competitive environment for young athletes.
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Harriet Constable learned a lot about the real life of Anna Maria della Pietà — that she grew up in an orphanage, that she was a star violinist and a favored student of Antonio Vivaldi. But in her new novel, The Instrumentalist, Constable also merges fact with fiction to tell the story of Anna Maria's synesthesia and musical talents. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about Anna Maria's life, the challenges and excitement of the classical music world at the time, and what we make of Vivaldi today.
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If you think of the First World War, your mind probably turns to images of trench warfare and thousands of men losing their lives to try and gain just a few meters of land.
However, in the first few weeks of the war, this was not at all the case. In fact, it initially looked like the war might not even last two months.
What stopped the collapse of France and began widespread trench warfare was a desperate battle that took place in the first week of September 1914.
Learn more about the First Battle of the Marne on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Food is a source of nourishment, joy and autonomy for a lot of people – but in her new book, Ruin their Crops on the Ground, Andrea Freeman also tracks how the U.S. government has used food policy as a form of control and oppression. In today's episode, Freeman speaks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about how the book's title can be traced back to an order given by George Washington to destroy the food source of Indigenous nations, and how from slavery to Got Milk? campaigns to school lunches today, there's often a bigger political agenda behind nutrition education.
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Located in the middle of the Old City of Jerusalem lies one of the most famous structures in the world.
In addition to being the visible symbol of the city, it lies on a plot of land that is one of the most historical and contested pieces of property on the planet.
It has been a center of controversy for thousands of years and looks to continue to do so for at least hundreds more.
Learn more about the Dome of the Rock and the ground it sits on, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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On this Indicators of the Week, we take you to a Manhattan bar to watch NVIDIA's latest earnings reports. Plus, how publishers are trying to keep their books in Florida school libraries and what private equity is doing in Football.
In 2015, the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan released an album that was unlike any other in the history of recorded music.
It simultaneously set the record for the highest amount of money ever spent on a work of music, and it was the worst-selling album in history in terms of unit sales.
The reason why it holds both of those distinctions is because only one copy of it was ever made.
Learn more about Once Upon A Time in Shaolin and the album which is unlike any other ever made, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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