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Education

Superintendent Pedro Rivera poses for a photograph at Lincoln Middle School in Lancaster, Pa. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

After first year of Pa. school improvement pilot, Wolf team looks to expand

The pilot involved 10 representatives from the administration working with 19 schools chosen to represent districts ranging in size from small, medium, and large.

7 years ago

Common Application sign in a Pa. college's admissions office (Wikimedia)
Criminal Justice
Higher Education

Criminal record question nixed from Common Application for college

For years, activists have railed against the question as discouraging and discriminatory to those with a criminal past.

7 years ago

MAFRAQ, Jordan — Syrian refugee children at a settlement near the Jordan-Syria border on April 26, 2018. (© Mohammad Abu Ghosh/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
International
National

Student voice: ‘Then one day a bomb exploded during my geometry class’

Fleeing Syria to pursue safety, education and a socially just world.

7 years ago

Books in the Harry Potter series. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Higher Education
Kids

Why I use Harry Potter to teach a college course on child development

In an effort to find a more engaging way to present child development to psychology students, I decided to use a book about an orphan boy who later discovers he is a wizard.

7 years ago

A protest against gun violence on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine massacre, in which 12 students and a teacher were gunned down in a Colorado school in 1999. (Christopher Brown/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
National
Public Health

Teachers with guns — it might be even worse than you think

The difference between education and enforcement

7 years ago

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. (Tara Garcia Mathewson/ The Hechinger Report)
Criminal Justice
Law

Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

Marquell Brown is one of a growing number of people in Illinois who have earned a high school diploma from School District 428, run by the department of juvenile justice.

7 years ago

Eraser (LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Higher Education
National

DeVos seeks to rewrite the rules on higher ed

The U.S. Education Department is going back to the drawing board on some basic rules of higher education, including one concept that has been in place for 125 years.

7 years ago

Composer and educator Alfonso Fuentes plays a black Steinway grand piano under a spotlight in a dark and empty auditorium at Princeton University
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
Higher Education
Music

Princeton University hosts artists, scholars from Puerto Rico

Princeton invited artist and scholars from Puerto Rico to work on their projects at the university campus during the summer.

7 years ago

Listen 4:18
Maddie Heeney, a transgender student, has thrived at Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington.
NewsWorks Tonight
Delaware
K-12
LGBTQ

Carney team scraps proposed anti-bias policy for Delaware transgender students

Governor supports schools chief's decision, but says he remains committed to 'protect children from discrimination at school'’ so they can focus on their education.

7 years ago

Listen 2:21
Gov. Tom Wolf (left) and Scott Wagner (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Wolf, Wagner spar over funding formula as education surges to center of Pa. governor’s race

Using the formula to dole out all state education funding would mean a massive redistribution that creates clear winners and losers.

7 years ago

Listen 4:56
Laurel Middle School, which was once slated for possible closure because of poor academic performance, has bucked the trend in Delaware and improved by double digits in the last two years in standardized math and English tests. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Delaware school test scores mostly stagnant; SAT results drop

While scores have ebbed this year, Department of Education officials are stressing that scores in the Smarter Balanced tests have risen since they were first given in 2015.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announces the formation of the Institute for the Contemporary African American Experience at Cheyney University. He is joined by (from left) Cheyney University President Aaron Walton and Charles S. Smith, Chairman of the Epcot Crenshaw Corporation, a partner in the Institute.
Higher Education
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity

Cheyney University launches two institutes as part of school’s reinvention

After facing several years of falling enrollment and financial instability, Cheyney University is looking to remake itself by playing to its strengths.

7 years ago

 Students who earned AP Capstone honors gathered with Superintendent William Hite and other dignitaries at a ceremony on Tuesday. (Dale Mezzacappa/The Notebook)
The Notebook
K-12
Philadelphia

Philly School District honors first graduates of AP Capstone program

Fourteen students at Northeast High School earned a diploma or certificate in the program.

7 years ago

(Big Stock image)
Higher Education
New Jersey

N.J. will offer free tuition at some community colleges

Not all of the state's 19 community colleges will be included in the pilot program because not enough was budgeted this year to cover the costs

7 years ago

With financial aid declining, many college students can't afford to eat, studies show, even though about 40 percent are also working. Nearly 1 in 4 college students are parents, which can add to their financial stress
NPR
Higher Education

For many college students, hunger ‘makes it hard to focus’

Up to half of college students in recent published studies say they either are not getting enough to eat or are worried about it.

7 years ago

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