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Education

Rows of school buses
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Buses pose particular challenge for schools’ pandemic plans

The majority of the state's public school districts contract with private companies to provide bus transportation, and those companies have difficulty finding enough drivers.

5 years ago

Delaware State University
Delaware
Higher Education

Delaware State Univ. to make historic acquisition of Wesley College

Delaware State, a historically Black university, has signed an agreement to take over Dover’s Wesley College, which has been struggling financially.

5 years ago

Black Students Matter demonstrators march en route to a rally at the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., on June 19.
NPR
K-12
National

Effective anti-racist education requires more diverse teachers, more training

An assistant professor of education at the University of California at Berkeley explains how teacher training and the presence of Black teachers can help reshape education.

5 years ago

Philadelphia's Central High School is visible, a red-brick building sitting on top of a green hill.
K-12
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
The Notebook

Black students at Central High and some faculty call for overhaul of admissions, school policies to increase equity

Alumni join the call to increase Black and Latinx enrollment and foster anti-racist culture at the selective high school.

5 years ago

Harvard players, students and fans celebrate a win over Yale after an NCAA college football game at Fenway Park in Boston, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018.  Harvard defeated Yale 45-27. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Public Health
Sports

Ivy League suspends fall sports due to coronavirus pandemic

The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to suspend all fall sports, including football, because of the coronavirus pandemic.

5 years ago

President Donald Trump
K-12
National
Public Health

Trump threatens to cut federal aid if schools don’t reopen

Trump made the comments a day after launching an all-out effort pressing state and local officials to reopen the nation’s schools and colleges this fall.

5 years ago

Divisive school district borders
NPR
Race & Ethnicity

Why U.S. schools are still segregated — and one idea to help change that

A nonprofit that investigates school funding inequities found that predominantly white school districts get collectively $23 billion more per year than nonwhite districts.

5 years ago

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, seen here during a White House briefing in March, will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday on how to reopen America's schools safely. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
K-12
Public Health

White House pushes to reopen schools despite a surge in coronavirus cases

Trump tweeted Monday: "SCHOOLS MUST OPEN IN THE FALL!!!" and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said "American education must be fully open and fully operational this fall!"

5 years ago

In this Aug. 13, 2019 file photo, students walk near the Widener Library in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The Ivy League school announced Monday, July 6, 2020, that as the coronavirus pandemic continues its freshman class will be invited to live on campus this fall, while most other undergraduates will be required learn remotely from home. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Higher Education
Immigration
National
Public Health

New rules: Foreign pupils must leave US if classes go online

New federal guidelines say international students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall.

5 years ago

Hayoung Youn
Keystone Crossroads
Health Care
K-12
Philadelphia

Sidelined by coronavirus, these med students found a way to help the helpers

Unable to work in hospitals, these Philly area medical students decided to help the helpers by tutoring the children of frontline workers.

5 years ago

Listen 3:12
Masterman School
K-12
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
The Notebook

Masterman and Central students use slurs, tell rape jokes in viral group chat

The incident is under investigation by the District and the schools. Updated with a statement from Dr. Hite

5 years ago

Kids in SPIN’s autism support preschool classroom do “center time” where they do independent activities related to their lessons. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Pennsylvania
The Notebook

Pa. charters deny ‘cherry-picking’ students, but data show special ed disparities

With new report, advocates seek fresh leverage in long-running battle over special ed payments to charters.

5 years ago

This Dec. 3, 2015 file photograph shows the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)
Higher Education
New Jersey

Princeton to remove Woodrow Wilson name from public policy school

Princeton announced plans to remove the name of the former president from its public policy school because of his segregationist views, reversing an earlier decision.

5 years ago

At Farnham Park on June 26, Camden High graduate Zanabria Harris, 18, stands in a sea of confetti at the end of the parade.  (Photo by April Saul for WHYY)
K-12
New Jersey
Public Health

Camden parade celebrates new high school graduates

The parade was one of several efforts to make up to the graduates some of what they’d lost when school stopped in mid-March because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

5 years ago

Christopher Golson (center) and Jessica Golson (right) with their cousin Gillian Golson. The Golsons have helped circulate a petition to demand change at Philly area private schools. (Picture courtesy of Golson family.)
K-12
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Black private school alumni say they’ve reached ‘breaking point,’ demand change

Driven by social media posts detailing racism at elite schools in the Philly area, Black alumni say they want major changes.

5 years ago

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