Education
A new one-stop-shop for Pennsylvania education data
The data are assembled longitudinally, meaning you can track something — say a district’s graduation rate — from year to year.
6 years ago
Listen 1:04Philly’s $40,000 cab ride, and what it says about modern, urban education
In spite of high costs and sketchy results, taxicabs are ferrying more and more Philadelphia students to school each year.
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Listen 6:25How the Myers-Briggs personality test began in a mother’s living room lab
Briggs was just 14 years old when she went to college, and ended up graduating first in her class.
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Despite unease, school board approves Keystone Opportunity Zones
Keystone Opportunity Zones give tax breaks to developers in blighted neighborhoods. But many of the sites are not blighted, advocates said.
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Reports: Stationing police in Philly schools costly, causes trauma for students of color
Some parents of kids in city schools firmly in favor of the police presence.
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Listen 2:58New Jersey boosts preschool funding for 31 districts
Districts that were recently awarded this new round of funding include:
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Betsy DeVos decries attacks on campus speech in Philly lecture
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called out the nation’s universities Monday in a talk about campus free speech and the First Amendment.
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Listen 1:27DeVos loses on student loans; Bezos funds preschool
The new school year marches on, and so does our weekly roundup.
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Making the preschool magic last as children get older
How one school’s efforts to support parents and families has led to success.
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If ‘free college’ sounds too good to be true, that’s because it often is
To millions of parents and students, they're magical words: free college. But is the idea pure fantasy?
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Turning chores into classrooms: New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning
If you’re grocery shopping in Philadelphia over the next year you might run into a cherubic cartoon character named A.J.
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Sweltering schools bring up age-old infrastructure problem in Pennsylvania
The state put a moratorium on its reimbursement program for school construction in 2015.
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A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school
Using a holistic approach with students to “catch those coughs before they become pneumonia.”
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Blazing back-to-school temperatures pose public health threat to students
Only about a quarter of Philadelphia public schools have air conditioning.
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To draw teachers to high-needs schools, Del. offers to repay $10k of their student loans
Gov. John Carney calls the measure the most important legislative accomplishment of the year.
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