Who's getting married, who isn't and why May 15
Guest:  Andrew Cherlin In honor of the start of wedding season, we’re going to spend the hour talking about the state of the American marriage. Despite the odds (the U.S. Census Bureau says roughly 50% of first marriages [...]

Maria Bello on her acting and activism May 10
Hour 2 Guest: Maria Bello Actor MARIA BELLO has won acclaim for her roles in the films The History of Violence and The Cooler.  She’s appeared in many television shows including starring as Detective Jane Timoney in last [...]

Pennsylvania, drug tests, unemployment and job creation May 7
Hour 2 Guests:  David Taylor and Paul Harrington In an interview last week about Pennsylvania's declining job growth numbers, Governor Tom Corbett said that among the challenges employers face in hiring is that too many job applicants can't [...]

Analysis of President Obama's trip to Mexico May 6
GUESTS: TIM JOHNSON and CHRISTOPHER WILSON Is a new Mexico emerging? That’s what President Obama said in a speech Friday during his two-day trip to Mexico, his fourth as President. He met with Mexico’s president, Enrique Pena Nieto [...]

Babies, language and the developing brain April 15
Guests:  Roberta Golinkoff, Trude Haecker Talk to your baby – it’s critical for their developing brains. And researchers now know that the choice and number of words that parents use matter.  Early exposure to language helps predict kids' [...]

The Rutgers University basketball coaching scandal April 8
Guests:  David Ridpath and Eric Zillmer Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice was fired last week after videos of his abusive behavior towards players were made public.  Rice was shown being physically aggressive and yelling homophobic slurs during practice.   [...]

The financial lives of twenty-somethings April 4
Guests: Annie Lowrey and Tamara Draut In an article in last week's New York Times Magazine, writer ANNIE LOWREY posed a provocative question — "Do Millennials Stand a Chance in the Real World?  Victims of the financial meltdown, [...]

State takeover of Camden public schools March 26
Guests: Matt Katz, John Mooney and Sean Brown Saying that the crisis in the Camden schools is "chronic and severe,” Governor Chris Christie yesterday announced the state will take over the city's public school system within as little [...]

Rethinking law schools March 21
Guests: Brian Tamanaha, Lawrence Mitchell Law schools are in trouble. Applications are at a 30-year low and rising tuitions have led to high student debt.  A weak job market has meant that many graduates can’t find a good [...]

Philadelphia's controversial school closures March 8
GUESTS: BENJAMIN HEROLD, WILLIAM HITE JR., LORI SHORR We'll respond to the school closures announced last night, and the politics and process that led the School District of Philadelphia to the extremely controversial management strategy. Joining guest-host MAIKEN [...]

Proposals for a new Philadelphia Federation of Teachers contract March 5
GUESTS:  WILLIAM HITE, RON WHITESTONE, ANDREW ROTHERHAM Philadelphia School District leaders say that in order to prevent a deficit of $1 billion over the next five years, they will be asking teachers to make major concessions that would [...]

Obama's early education proposal February 20
President Obama wants to provide quality early education for all low to moderate income 4-year olds. Last week the White House provided more details on the proposal which would involve a  partnership with states to guarantee preschool for [...]

Debating PA Gov. Corbett's budget proposal February 15
GUESTS: DONNA COOPER and MATTHEW BROUILLETTE Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett unveiled a budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, and launched an annual battle over dollars and priorities across the commonwealth. The $28.4 [...]

Analyzing the State of the Union address and the Republican response February 13
Guests:  Ben Berger, Lara Brown and Imani Perry Last night, before Congress and the nation, President Obama addressed the state of the union and outlined his second term agenda.   He focused on the middle class, pledging action on [...]

School closures and safety February 6
The Philadelphia School District’s proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about safety. Under the new plan, 17,000 students will be relocated and will have to find [...]

'Pull of Gravity,' a documentary about re-entry after prison January 31
Seven hundred thousand inmates are released from U.S. prisons each year. A new documentary film funded by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania wrestles with the question: What happens when they come home? “Pull [...]

The early causes and lasting impact of the education and knowledge gap January 31
For their newly-published book, Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance, education researchers DONNA CELANO and SUSAN NEUMAN studied two Philadelphia neighborhoods — one in Chestnut Hill and the other in North Philadelphia — and found that children living [...]

#innovateRT: The Arts Community January 16
“Kids are everything. Poetry is my passion, but PYPM is my purpose,” says our guest, poet PERRY “VISION” DIVIRGILIO, referring to his work with the Philly Youth Poetry Movement. The third part of our PHILADELPHIA INNOVATORS series drums, [...]

Gov. Corbett's suit vs. the NCAA over Penn State/Sandusky penalties January 8
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett sued the NCAA last week on behalf of the Commonwealth, claiming that the governing body for college sports went overboard in penalizing Penn State in response to the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. In [...]

A conversation with Philadelphia school chief William Hite January 8
On Monday, after four months on the job, Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite, Jr. made public his blueprint for turning around the city’s public schools. Its two broad goals are to improve academics on all levels — from [...]

Violence against women January 7
The six men accused of gang raping and killing a 23-year-old Indian woman were formally charged last week. The horrific attack has set off dozens of protests in India demanding justice for the victim and changes in attitudes [...]

What's happened to recess? January 7
As school districts cut budgets, worry about litigation and squeeze more academics into limited time, recess has taken a hit in terms of frequency and duration in some schools throughout the country.  Only six states mandate 20 minutes [...]

Perspective on the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy December 17
In an effort to provide thoughtful perspective on the tragic shootings that killed 20 children aged 6-7 and 6 educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, we’ll turn to three local professionals who study and work [...]

The risks and rewards of older parenthood December 13
Among the many changes in American families over the past few decades is the increasing number of parents who are having children later in life.  While the average first time parent in the U.S. is in her twenties, [...]

The diverse school dilemma December 11
For young middle-class families who are committed to living in a diverse, vibrant urban environment while contributing to the economic health of the city, the decision of where to send children to school is often fraught with conflict.  [...]

Changing Lives: El Sistema's Transformative Power of Music December 7
A music education program has changed the life trajectory of hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children in Venezuela and is in Philadelphia. Curtis graduate STANFORD THOMPSON, the Executive Director of Play On, Philly!, uses this after-school Venezuelan program, [...]

Why college still matters November 23
[REBROADCAST] All across the country, college campuses are bustling once again.   Students are moving into dorms, saying bye to mom and dad, consuming a lot of beer and pizza, and the starting classes.  But in recent years, the [...]

The Future of Philadelphia's Catholic schools: A conversation with Casey Carter November 5
In August the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced that it was turning over control of 17 of its high schools and four special education schools to an independent foundation created to raise money and stave off closures for the [...]

Presidential debate reaction October 17
Hour 1 With the race for the presidency is in its last few weeks and the candidates locked in a very close race, the stakes were high for last night's second debate between President Barack Obama and former [...]

The Supreme Court and the future of affirmative action October 9
Hour 1 On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, the first affirmative action case since 2003 when the justices ruled that the University of Michigan Law School's could consider a [...]

Parent-trigger laws October 8
Hour 1 The movie “Won’t Back Down” starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis is about a crusading single mother and inspiring teacher who are trying to fix their children’s failing Pittsburgh public school. It doesn’t sound like it [...]

Pennsylvania school update: Achievement, school choice, and student drug-testing October 1
Pennsylvania student achievement scores dropped last year for the first time since the tests began in 2002.  Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis blamed the decline on a statewide crack down on cheating but others say that recent [...]

The Latino Vote September 21
Hour 1 This week, President Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney got the opportunity to address Latino voters, trying to earn their support at a “Meet the Candidates” forum in Florida and on the Spanish language TV [...]

Non-traditional paths to higher education September 18
Hour 2 If you attended college, did you enroll directly out of high school? Or are you like one of the 45 percent of students our guest, writer and educator, MIKE ROSE, says took longer to find their [...]

Paul Tough on 'How Children Succeed' September 7
Hour 2 In his new book, “How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity and the Hidden Power of Character,” New York Times Magazine writer PAUL TOUGH challenges our traditional view of why and how children thrive. Instead of tested intelligence, [...]

Why college still matters September 4
Hour 2 All across the country, college campuses are bustling once again.   Students are moving into dorms, saying bye to mom and dad, consuming a lot of beer and pizza, and the starting classes.  But in recent years, [...]

Update: The drought, PA's voting laws, and Philadelphia's state test cheating scandal August 21
Hour 1 We get updates on three news stories we've been following.   We'll start off talking about this year’s drought, the worst drought in U.S. history since the 1950's with writer CHARLES FISHMAN.  In his recent New York [...]

Madeline Levine on how to 'Teach Your Children Well' August 20
Hour 2 According to psychologist MADELINE LEVINE, PhD, 25 percent of students attending Ivy League colleges have symptoms of anxiety or depression. When she wrote “The Price of Privilege” in 2006, Levine says she had to sell the [...]

The Common Core Standards for public education; then PA's voter ID law August 15
Hour 1 When No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law in 2001 it promised to improve public education by raising standards and establishing measurable goals for student progress.  While the law was praised for making schools more accountable, [...]

Chris Hayes: Can hard work & pluck be corrupted? July 30
Hour 2 Are those who worked their way to top doing a better job than those who were born into it? CHRIS HAYES, The Nation’s editor-at-large and host of MSNBC’s “UP with Chris Hayes,” feels America is broken [...]

The Ivy League for all: Free online courses July 26
Hour 2 A number of major universities are now offering online courses for free – they’re called MOOCs, for Massive Open Online Courses – and many people believe they’ll change higher education. The online education venture Coursera, which [...]

There's no place like home: Why we get homesick July 25
Hour 2 “There's no place like home," said Judy Garland as Dorothy in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," as she clicked her heels and hoped for the return to the comforts of her own bed [...]

Penn State, the NCAA and next steps July 24
Hour 1 At a news conference yesterday, Mark Emmert, the president of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), outlined a set of unprecedented "corrective and punitive" sanctions on Penn State in response to the actions and inactions of [...]

The Freeh report's damning conclusions about Penn State's Sandusky scandal July 13
Hour 1 Last month, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, for a reign of terror in his home, in his car and in the locker room of [...]

American philosophy 101 with Carlin Romano July 3
Hour 2 According to the 19th century French intellectual Alexis de Toqueville, "in no other country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States." That's not true today, says our guest [...]

Radio Times Pennsylvania Political Roundtable June 28
Hour 2 The Pennsylvania state budget’s deadline is tomorrow and the cuts proposed for the $27.3 billion limit, set by Governor Tom Corbett, are controversial. So far, state university funding is untouched, and a block grant for public [...]

Life without parole for juveniles: The Supreme Court decides June 26
Hour 1 The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that states may no longer sentence juveniles under the age of 18 who have committed homicide to mandatory life sentences without parole.  The 5-4 majority ruling in the case called such [...]

Ed Rendell sees 'A Nation of Wusses' June 26
Hour 2 Former two-term Pennsylvania Governor and Philadelphia Mayor ED RENDELL comes in to discuss his new book, “A Nation of Wusses: How America’s Leaders Lost the Guts to Make Us Great.” He looks back on his years [...]

Kids & screen time June 21
Hour 2 You’ve probably noticed that kids spend a lot of time staring at screens – smart phones, iPads, laptops, TVs.  They spend more time with electronic gadgets then they do engaged in any other activity– school, hanging [...]

Immigration, the White House & the Supreme Court June 19
Hour 1 President Obama’s “DREAM Order” last Friday, along with the pending Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's immigration law, are reshaping immigration policy on the state and federal levels and have put immigration squarely in the center of [...]

Girls & women in sports: The 40th anniversary of Title IX June 19
Hour 2 This Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the civil rights law passed by Congress and signed into law by President Richard Nixon on June 23, 1972. It prohibits gender discrimination in educational programs or [...]

National Politics Roundup June 14
Hour 1 We’re taking stock of the race for the White House this hour and examining how the Presidential candidates are faring. It’s been a tough few weeks for Obama’s re-election campaign – the Wisconsin results, more bad [...]

Conversation with local child advocates Shelly Yanoff and Joe Carruth June 7
Hour 2 After 25 years as the executive director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth, SHELLY YANOFF is stepping down.  Since the 1980s she has worked tirelessly to increase funding, change policy and improve programming in child [...]

The jobs picture for new graduates June 4
Hour 1 What kind of jobs are out there for new college graduates? How has the job market changed since the depths of the Great Recession of 2008? Who’s getting jobs, and who’s not, and why? Joining us [...]

National news roundup May 25
Hour 1 The Presidential election is six months away and the race is heating up. Political ads by the campaigns and Super PACs are popping up around the country.  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has released two ads [...]

Survey says PA schools struggling; then, the Orie sisters in power, in trouble May 24
Hour 2 An annual survey of Pennsylvania school districts (pdf) found that schools are in financial crisis and are planning deep cuts to education programs. Things like summer school, Advanced Placement classes, tutoring, music, gym, arts education and [...]

A critical look at Philadelphia's school reorganization plan May 23
Hour 1 Last month, leaders of the School District of Philadelphia unveiled a radical reorganization plan that would transform – or “blow up” – the district’s structure, closing 40 schools over the next two years and more each [...]

Are hate-crime laws necessary? May 22
Hour 1 Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was sentenced yesterday to 30 days in prison for committing a bias crime in connection with the suicide death of his roommate Tyler Clementi.  Bias intimidation laws, also known as [...]

A conversation with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett May 17
Hour 1 We present a recorded and lightly edited broadcast of Marty’s Tuesday interview with Pennsylvania Gov. TOM CORBETT at The Prince Music Theater. Marty asked the governor about cuts he's made to education and public welfare programs, [...]

Why students drop out of college & what can be done to help them graduate May 15
Hour 1 Until a decade ago, the U.S. led the world in college graduation rates. Now we rank 12th globally in the number of young adults who hold a minimum of an associate's degree, and while almost 70 [...]

How the new economic power of women is changing work, home and family May 11
Hour 1 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, full-time working women earned 81 percent of what full-time working men earned in 2010, but over the past three decades women's wages have been steadily increasing. And now, more [...]

Radical change ahead for Philly public schools: The administration's case May 3
Hour 1 In a decisive, dramatic and controversial break with the past, the School District of Philadelphia’s leaders have charted a course that could “blow up” the district’s structure, close 40 schools over the next two years and [...]

Understanding the influence of the ancient Maya May 2
Hour 2 There is a lot of talk about the Maya civilization this year. That's because the according to their calendar, the 2012 winter solstice this December is a big deal.  It marks the end of their 5,125-year [...]

What's the hold up? The science of procrastination May 1
Hour 1 [REBROADCAST] Procrastination is something a lot of us struggle with everyday – we delay work, get anxious about impending deadlines and pull all-nighters to finish things up at the very last minute.  So why do people [...]

Matching economic priorities with national priorities April 18
Hour 1 The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has long been used to measure the health of our economy – whether it is growing or retracting – as it tells us the value of the goods and services we [...]

The Practicing Mind April 18
As a full-time professional piano tech for over 25 years, our guest THOMAS M. STERNER sat down and repeated a task at least 88 times on a grand piano, and each piano has a potential 34 different adjustments [...]

Sexual assaults on college campuses April 16
It is estimated that  20 to 25 percent of women will be the victim of a completed or attempted rape while in college, but fewer than 5 percent of these cases go reported. High profile cases at Penn [...]

What's the hold up? The science of procrastination March 29
Hour 2 We've wanted to do a show on procrastination for a while now but we just kept putting it off. Finally, we buckled down and scheduled it.  Sound familiar?  Procrastination is something a lot of us struggle [...]

Problem-solving as education: Philadelphia's Sustainability Workshop March 15
Hour 2 Twenty-eight Philadelphia public high school seniors, who have proven their strengths in math, science and engineering, have been participating in a new alternative project on the edge of the Navy Yard. This pilot program, the Sustainability [...]

Problem-solving as education: Philadelphia's Sustainability Workshop February 17
Hour 1 Twenty-eight Philadelphia public high school seniors, who have proven their strengths in math, science and engineering, have been participating in a new alternative project on the edge of the Navy Yard. This pilot program, the Sustainability [...]

College cuts: Pennsylvania's higher ed on the chopping block February 16
Hour 1 Last week, for the second year in a row, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett announced that his budget for 2012-2013 would include steep cuts in higher education funding.  The state-related universities Penn State, Temple and Pitt would [...]

Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia February 8
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer.  This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.  He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years.  [...]

The proposed merger of Rutgers-Camden & Rowan University February 7
Hour 1 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is pushing an advisory committee’s proposal to improve higher-education in the Garden State. The panel recommended consolidating a number of the state’s public universities to create larger and more competitive institutions. [...]

Changing Lives: El Sistema's Transformative Power of Music January 24
Hour 2 A music education program has changed the life trajectory of hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children in Venezuela and has recently come to Philadelphia. Curtis graduate STANFORD THOMPSON, the Executive Director of Play On, Philly!, uses [...]

Role of Technology in Education January 19
Hour 1 Laptops, tablets, electronic white boards and PowerPoint are increasingly at home in K through 12 classrooms. Some education reformers see technology as the central to improving learning, personalizing education, and saving money for cash-strapped schools. But [...]

The future of Philadelphia's Catholic schools January 12
Hour 1 Enrollment in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s elementary schools and high schools has been declining for decades, while the costs of running those schools have increased dramatically. Tuition fees, a decrease in the birthrate among Catholic families, [...]

Hazing, bullying and how to stop them January 5
Hour 2 A number of hazing-related deaths have made headlines in recent months. Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died within an hour of a hazing ritual, according to the state medical examiner, that involved “multiple blunt [...]

Emmanuel Jal, South Sudanese child soldier turned hip-hop star & peace advocate January 2
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Internationally acclaimed hip-hop artist and peace activist EMMANUEL JAL estimates he was born sometime in the early 1980s in the south of Sudan. At the age of seven, his family was forced repeatedly to flee [...]

Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia December 23
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer.  This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.  He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years.  [...]

Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion November 25
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Writer and teacher MICHAEL LEVY describes China to his students as a country exactly like the United States in size, in cities, in the same number of rich and poor people – but add one [...]

What's wrong (and right) about college athletics November 15
Hour 2 Over the years , in what he called the Grand Experiment, Penn State football coach Joe Paterno set out to prove that it was possible to build and field a championship caliber football team without sacrificing [...]

Emmanuel Jal, South Sudanese child soldier turned hip-hop star & peace advocate November 14
Hour 2 Internationally acclaimed hip-hop artist and peace activist EMMANUEL JAL estimates he was born sometime in the early 1980s in the south of Sudan. At the age of seven, his family was forced repeatedly to flee their [...]

Penn State Child Sex Abuse Scandal November 10
Hour 1 In a disturbing and graphic grand jury report (pdf), the Pennsylvania Attorney General's office has provided details of the child sex abuse case against former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky. The report alleges that while [...]

New blood on the School Reform Commission: Cary, Pritchett & Ramos October 24
Hour 1 The School Reform Commission is the five-member governing body of the School District of Philadelphia, created by state lawmakers in 2001 and populated with three members appointed by the governor and two by Philadelphia’s mayor. After [...]

The Debate over Single-Sex Schooling October 13
Hour 1 A recent paper in the journal Science attacks single-sex education.  In the article, “The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling”, the authors write that the recent push for sex-segregated education is “deeply misguided, and often justified by weak, [...]

Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion September 30
Hour 2 Writer and teacher MICHAEL LEVY describes China to his students as a country exactly like the United States in size, in cities, in the same number of rich and poor people – but add one billion [...]

Poet Philip Schultz: My Dyslexia September 21
Hour 2 PHILIP SCHULTZ is a famous poet and writer.  This poetry collection Failure won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.  He founded and directs The Writers Studio in New York and has been teaching creative writing for years.  And [...]

Angel Harris on roots of the black-white achievement gap September 19
Hour 2 ANGEL HARRIS challenges recent explanations for low academic performance of African American high school students in his new book, Kids Don’t Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap. His research finds black kids [...]

New Jersey's Anti-bullying Law September 14
Hour 1 New Jersey has passed what’s been described as the toughest anti-bullying law in the country.  It requires schools to appoint anti-bullying coordinators, there’s an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip line that students can call, and schools are [...]

The '9-11 Generation,' & Rutgers' 9/11 student journalism project September 12
Hour 2 As our last look at how the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed our world, we look at their impact on those who were kids then, what some demographers have called “the 9/11 Generation.” This [...]

Parenting Teens September 8
Hour 2 The teenage years aren’t easy for anyone – not for kids or parents.  Teens face dating, driving, social networks, school and peer pressure, and they increasingly long for independence.  Many parents though are conflicted out their [...]

Back to School with budget cuts August 31
Hour 1 It was tough year for schools and teachers across the country as they struggled with their state governments over budget cuts. Here in Pennsylvania public education funding was slashed and in the last few months, and [...]

Philadelphia public schools, after Arlene Ackerman August 26
Hour 2 Though the Arlene Ackerman era at the School District of Philadelphia is officially over, the reverberations and repercussions go on. Boos, jeers and crowd protests punctuated Wednesday’s School Reform Commission meeting, at which the ousted superintendent’s [...]

A pair of Philadelphia public school principals August 24
Hour 1 It has been a tumultuous year for the School District of Philadelphia — at the headquarters  as well as at the school level.  South Philadelphia High School was recovering from a series of racially-motivated violent events [...]

The departure of Philadelphia school superintendent Arlene Ackerman August 23
Hour 2 After a three-year tenure filled with controversy,  superintendent Arlene Ackerman is leaving the School District of Philadelphia. Her departure, which was considered imminent, was made official yesterday in a joint press release from Mayor Nutter, the [...]

A conversation with the leaders of KIPP Philadelphia and Mastery Charter Schools August 10
Hour 1 KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) and Mastery Charter Schools are considered two of the most successful charter school operators in Philadelphia. Both are college-preparatory, have longer school days and Saturday classes, and both aim to create [...]

Built on a dream & a hope: 2 Philadelphia schools providing an alternative to public schools July 11
Hour 1 Community Partnership School, the vision of Germantown Academy head James Connor, opened its doors in 2006 to 34 children in grades pre-K to 1st grade. A collaboration between Germantown Academy and Project H.O.M.E., the school was [...]

Pennsylvania Politics Roundup June 28
Hour 1 It looks like, for now, the $27.15 billion Pennsylvania budget agreement is going to be approved before the Thursday deadline.  And Governor Corbett got most of what he wanted including no tax increases and no natural [...]

Have charter schools fulfilled their promise? June 27
Hour 1 Since 1997 when Pennsylvania first authorized the establishment of charter schools, over 70,000 students in grades K-12 have enrolled in one of 135 "bricks and mortar" charter schools and a dozen cyber charter schools state-wide .  [...]

The Effects of Violence on Kids June 27
Hour 2 It’s no surprise that soldiers fighting in war zones develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder from the fighting and the bloodshed. But far more children suffer from PTSD from the violence they witness or experience at home or [...]