New Heights Show on Education
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History, work, and education aloud.
New Heights Show on Education is a broad, rotating education program with a strong recent focus on Civil War survival narratives and HR advice. Episodes move from readings about imprisonment and endurance to workplace topics like resignation, gratitude, and women’s empowerment.
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New Heights Show on Education is a long-running education podcast with the loose shape of radio and the range of a public-service bulletin board. Recent episodes show two main modes. One is Pamela Clark reading from 19th Century American material in the American Service Men and Women Tell Their Stories of Survival series. The other is Manya Shukla’s Empowering HR Within the Workforce series, which treats the workplace as a place for skill-building and personal improvement. The Civil War episodes are somber and sustained. They spend long stretches inside passages about Andersonville, winter rain, prison conditions, hunger, cold, forced movement, parole offers, rail travel, steamboats, and the painful final stretch toward freedom. These installments are not fast or highly produced. They are built around the act of reading historical testimony aloud, with the host framing the chapters and guiding the audience from one section to the next. That makes the show feel closer to an educational reading room than a modern history documentary. The HR episodes have a gentler, more instructional rhythm. They talk through resignation, gratitude, proactive strategy, personality development, women’s empowerment, and the hope that steady weekly work can make life better. Manya Shukla’s final episode also becomes reflective, thanking Pamela Clark, discussing consistency, and closing the series with a personal sense of completion. Across both strands, the show favors sincerity over polish. It repeats itself, pauses for announcements, and shifts from heavy material to practical encouragement without much ceremony. The through-line is education as moral attention: remembering service members, improving workplace conduct, and encouraging listeners to act with gratitude and care. Its best fit is for patient listeners who like spoken readings, historical survival accounts, and plain workplace guidance in a radio style.
Made for: For patient listeners who like educational radio, Civil War readings, service-member survival stories, and straightforward workplace guidance. It also suits listeners who prefer plainspoken instruction over highly produced storytelling.
What sets it apart: Its range is unusually wide: the same show can move from Andersonville prison material to resignation advice and gratitude at work. The format feels direct and reading-centered, with historical testimony and practical advice sharing the same educational mission.
Welcome to the award-winning New Heights Show on Education, which covers educational topics and news for families, students and educators. The internet radio program and podcast hosts cover various topics of education for home, charter and public-school families in Ohio and beyond. We cover many aspects of education: education in the news, civil rights, the power of education, restructuring schools, the IEP process, tips for teens, zoology, technology, Common Core, history, science, reading, business, entrepreneurship, special needs, round-table discussions and reading of our teen comic book series that tackles youth issues. The show educates and inspires its audience by sharing...
One minute you're parsing parental-rights rulings; the next, you're inside an Andersonville escape tunnel.
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A spare 1865 survival story that lands with quiet force.
The episode of New Heights Show on Education turns a 1865 survival account into a hard, humane listen. Pamela Clark guides the story through prisoners, rail transfers, exhaustion, and the pressure of staying alive, while the plain detail keeps the suffering close.
A prison reading centered on news, wreckage, and improvised escape.
Pamela Clark reads a wartime prison account that moves from bad news inside the camp to the wreck after a train collision, then into the plain mechanics of escape.
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Lillian Cunningham travels to five national parks to trace the human fights behind each landscape.
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Pamela Clark presents the Revolutionary War as an eight-year conflict that began with tensions over taxation and representation and expanded after France entered in 1778.
Host Pamela Clark continues her reading of an anonymous 19th-century American memoir, covering the final chapters of a Union prisoner's liberation from a Confederate prison camp in Florida in April 1865, the chaotic emotional scenes at Jacksonville when prisoners heard news of Lee's surrender and Lincoln's death, and the shattering postscript that two of the narrator's closest prison companions died when the condemned, overloaded steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi.
This episode features a reading about the harsh winter conditions and survival struggles of prisoners at Andersonville during the Civil War.
This episode discusses what to do and what not to do after resigning from a job, focusing on thanking your boss and providing examples of their support.
This episode features host Pamela Clark reading a chapter about Union prisoners at Andersonville during the Civil War, focusing on rebel attempts to recruit skilled prisoners through offers of parole, food, and wages.
This episode discusses HR strategies to be proactive in building an effective workforce while focusing on personal growth.
This episode features a reading from a 19th-century account of a Civil War-era serviceman's vivid memories of being jailed and reflecting on personal transformation.
This episode discusses seven principles of women empowerment and how women can overcome workplace challenges.
Host Pamela Clark reads a chapter from a 19th-century biography about American servicemen navigating a swamp during a military campaign.
This episode discusses personality development tips for HR professionals, starting with stress management.
Pamela Clark reads from a 19th-century Civil War prison account in American servicemen and women tell their stories of survival, moving through Andersonville, a prison train wreck, and a later escape plan.
This episode of the New Heights Show on Education, despite its title, is actually an HR podcast discussing workforce management and recommended books for HR professionals in 2026.
Host Pamela Clark continues reading 19th-century accounts of American servicemen's survival experiences during the Civil War, focusing on Chapter 5 about shelter challenges.
The host discusses HR books to read in 2026 for professional growth and workforce effectiveness.
This episode continues a historical narrative about American servicemen's survival experiences during the Civil War, focusing on their capture and imprisonment at Andersonville.
This episode discusses the definition and importance of dress code policies in the workplace.
Host Pamela Clark shares a personal story from African American Civil War soldier John Berry about his desire to fight for freedom during the Civil War.
This episode focuses on sharing firsthand survival stories and historical resources about the Civil War as part of a series on American servicemen and women's experiences.
Host Pamela Clark of the New Heights Show on Education presents the first installment of a Civil War series, reading from Wikipedia's overview of the conflict, which ran from April 12, 1861, to May 26, 1865.
Host Pamela Clark reads an essay written by Sergeant First Class Jacob Coors, a public affairs chief and third-generation U.S.
Host Pamela Clark of the New Heights Show on Education continues a multi-episode project of reading aloud the names of American nurses killed in action during WWI who have never received formal recognition.
This episode features survival stories of American men and women, including historical soldier letters from 1896.
Host Pamela Clark shares her great-grandfather's experience in the Musargon battle during World War I, focusing on his physical and mental survival.
Host Pamela Clark narrates the fourth episode on the Meuse-Argonne, focusing on lives lost and stories of survival from World War I.
Host Pamela Clark introduces a series of survival stories from American history, with plans to include living veterans.
This episode shares resources and information about American servicemen and women telling their stories of survival.
Host Pamela Clark introduces a series on the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, sharing her family connection and assigning homework with video links.
The host introduces a podcast about HR, asks listeners how they spend free time, and sets up a discussion on personal growth and HR mistakes.
This episode discusses the silent treatment as a form of passive-aggressive behavior in relationships.
Host Pamela Clark introduces a segment where survivors of the USS Drexler share their memories and the creation of an annual memorial.
Host Pamela Clark shares survivor accounts from the USS Drexler, a destroyer sunk by kamikaze attack in 1945, including her grandfather's death.
This episode shares personal stories and recollections from American servicemen aboard the USS Drexler, including a shakedown cruise with rough seas.
Host Pamela Clark shares the survival story of the sinking of the USS Drexler during World War II.
Host Pamela Clark introduces a series on American servicemen's survival stories, focusing on the USS Drexler sinking.
Host Pamela Clark presents survival stories from American servicemen, focusing on the USS Drexler memorial and the healing power of shared memories.
Pamela Clark reads accounts from Albert J.