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Penn Alexander students celebrate after learning their school was named a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence.
The Why
Higher Education
K-12
Philadelphia

How Drexel’s public school experiment could change West Philadelphia

Drexel University is building a public school on its campus border, much like the University of Pennsylvania did two decades ago. Will that accelerate gentrification?

Air Date: July 31, 2019

Listen 13:28
Fifth-graders Thomas Medley, (left), and Devin Walker study their training materials as they learn to become student leaders at Woodland Hills Intermediate in 2017. (The University of Pittsburgh)
Pennsylvania

This Pa. school suspended fewer students by using a restorative model

School staff were trained to think of discipline differently. They were asked to find out why students are disruptive rather than remove them from school.

6 years ago

Wyoming Valley West High School in Plymouth, Pa. Officials with the school district are not responding to several offers to settle debt students accrued from not paying for cafeteria meals.
NPR
Income Inequality
K-12
Kids

Offers pour in to cover Pa. students’ meal debt, but school officials not interested

At least five donors have stepped forward willing to satisfy the $22,000 in debt accrued by dozens of students whose parents did not give them money to pay for the meals.

6 years ago

(New Jersey Schools Development Authority)
K-12
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

N.J. fires 30 at Schools Development Authority

Murphy administration also releases three reports into personnel controversies at the SDA under its former CEO Lizette Delgado Polanco

6 years ago

Amy Wax teaches a class at the University of Pennsylvania.
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity
The Philadelphia Tribune

Penn Law dean: Prof’s comments were ‘bigoted’

The dean of the UPenn Law School issued a statement Tuesday, condemning a professor’s assertion that America “will be better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites."

6 years ago

Dozens of HBCU leaders heard from U.S. Rep. Alma Adams , the founder of the Congressional HBCU Caucus, at the 2019 HBCU Philanthropy Symposium hosted by Delaware State University at Dover Downs Hotel and Casino. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Delaware
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity

Amid ‘critical’ times for HBCUs, leaders share fundraising ideas in Dover

Leaders of historically black colleges and universities shared ideas for raising funds during challenging times at a forum hosted by Del. State University.

6 years ago

SEIU union members rally inside the first floor of the Municipal Service Building to file a complaint against universities and hospitals, and a contractor for them who the union claims is not paying security workers the prevailing wage on Monday. (Michael D'Onofrio/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Business
Higher Education
Income Inequality
The Philadelphia Tribune

Union files complaint against CCP, UPenn, Drexel, Temple, and more over wages for security officers

SEIU filed its labor complaint against Drexel University, CCP, St. Joseph University, Temple University, Temple University Hospital, UPenn, and the UPenn Health system.

6 years ago

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is pictured in this Jan. 15, 2019 file photo (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
K-12
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Murphy scraps Christie’s salary cap for N.J. superintendents

Nine years after former Gov. Chris Christie limited how much New Jersey superintendents could be paid, his successor ends the restriction.

6 years ago

The courthouse in Luzerne County, Pa., where officials this month sent letters to parents who had unpaid cafeteria debt, threatening to take parents to Dependency Court if the obligations were not settled.
NPR
Income Inequality
K-12
Kids

Don’t have your lunch money? 1 Pa. school district threatens foster care

Wyoming Valley West School District, one of the poorest districts in the state as measured by per-pupil spending, is located in a former coal mining community in NE Pa.

6 years ago

Katherine Streeter for NPR
NPR
Kids
Technology

Parents, sometimes you’re the problem when it comes to tech use

Parents of young kids pick up their phones an average of almost 70 times a day — often to escape a stressful parenting moment.

6 years ago

Many adults in the U.S. take out student loans but never finish their degree — leaving them in a vicious cycle of debt (LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Higher Education
Income Inequality

‘I’m drowning’: Those hit hardest by student loan debt never finished college

From mid-2014 to mid-2016, 3.9 million undergraduates with federal student loan debt dropped out, according to an analysis of federal data by The Hechinger Report.

6 years ago

Members of the Cheyney University marching band play in the stands during a football game against Lincoln University. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Why
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity

Cheyney University’s survival plan

For years, Cheyney University's been on life support. Now, with a balanced budget & infusion of funds, America's first historically black university could be turning a corner.

Air Date: July 18, 2019

Listen 14:54
The standardized tests scores of chronically absent students will no longer count against teachers, schools, and the state. (John Locher/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Will this tweak in Pa. law send student test scores soaring?

The standardized tests scores of chronically absent students will no longer count against teachers, schools, and the state.

6 years ago

Jovan Weaver, 37, was charged with vehicular homicide in April 2019. Here, he's pictured at his childhood playground in 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
K-12

Special update: The story Jovan Weaver didn’t tell

In this special episode of Schooled we unpack the details of the Jovan Weaver vehicular homicide case and its larger implications.

Air Date: July 17, 2019

Listen 15:28
Nineteen states have adopted
NPR
K-12

States are ratcheting up reading expectations for 3rd-graders

Almost 20 states have passed laws requiring third-graders who aren't proficient in reading to repeat the grade. The policy started in Florida 17 years ago.

6 years ago

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