Long Listens Welcome to our sandbox. For months now, the NPR Ed Team has been playing with what we like to call "long listen" ideas — worthy stories that we can't tell in three or four minutes.

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Long Listens
Freedom To Explore: 2 Schools Where The Students Call The Shots
From Mozart To Mr. Rogers: Literacy, Music And The Brain
At a one-room school in the Colombian Andes, students learn convivencia -- which means, more or less, the art of living together. Steve Drummond/NPR hide caption