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The Arboretum at the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion will become instrumental in educating horticulture students at St. Joseph's University under a new partnership that will enhance opportunities for students at both institutions. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Higher Education
Visual Arts

Realizing Barnes’ dream, Lower Merion garden entrusted to St. Joe’s University

The Barnes Foundation arboretum, at the original Lower Marion location, is now operated by St. Joseph's University.

7 years ago

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale (Chris Knight/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Pa. auditor general cracks down on school districts in recent reports

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale has targeted two school districts in recent weeks for mis ...

7 years ago

Republican Scott Wagner (left) has vowed to stomp on the face of Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, in the increasingly vitriolic Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign. A Wagner campaign spokesman says the threat was metaphorical. (AP file photos)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12

A month before the election, Wolf, Wagner continue trading barbs over education

Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidates Tom Wolf and Scott Wagner have continued to trade barbs over educat ...

7 years ago

Del. Ariana Kelly stands outside the Maryland House of Delegates in Annapolis, Md. She introduced a new state law to require that consent be taught in sex ed classes.
NPR
Gender
National
Sex & Relationships

Should we teach about consent in K-12? Brett Kavanaugh’s home state says yes

Before they turn 18, about 8 percent of girls and 0.7 percent of boys experience rape or attempted rape, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

7 years ago

 Students attend class at Belmont Charter School in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)

Applying to a Philly charter school? This new website wants to make it easier

Starting Friday, families applying to most of the city's charter schools will have to fill out the same online form.

7 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Bill freeing Pa. students from standardized test graduation requirement advances in Statehouse

A new bill would scrap the idea that high school students in Pennsylvania need to score proficient on sta ...

7 years ago

Students embrace a day after learning their charter school is closing. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12

Delaware charter abruptly closes, students forced to transfer

A month into the school year, upset and angry teenagers and parents filled a school auditorium in Delaware Wednesday, unsure where their ...

7 years ago

Listen 1:47
Middle school students change classes (Jessica Kourkounis for WHYY, file)
Delaware
Health Care
Kids

Delaware schools win $9M grant to improve mental health services

The program will prevent young students from falling through the cracks.

7 years ago

Paul Robeson High School juniors and seniors learn how to use a voting machine. Eligible students were offered a chance to register to vote during their Voter Registration Day event. (Darryl Murphy/WHYY)
Elections
Philadelphia

Philadelphia marks Voter Registration Day with campaign aimed at city’s youth

“They have the biggest stake in our future so we want to get them involved.”

7 years ago

Home & Family
K-12
Kids

Early evidence of a ‘Trump effect’ on bullying in schools

Preliminary study results show that a community's preference for Trump is associated with higher rates of teasing and bullying in Virginia middle schools.

7 years ago

Lower Merion schools Superintendent Robert Copeland defends the district's budgeting practices during a 2016 school board meeting after a judge ruled that the district misled taxpayers. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

After another twist, Pa. Supreme Court to hear Lower Merion tax case

In 2016, an aviation attorney and Lower Merion resident sued his school district claiming it misrepresented its finances to secure a tax increase without voter approval.

7 years ago

Listen 1:12
Students change classes at a public school in Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania
Technology

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.

7 years ago

Listen 1:04
Linwood Bellamy (right) hands his son, Kareem Bellamy, 20, his lunch bag as he loads into the taxi that will take him to school. An increasing number of Philadelphia students are relying on cabs to transport them to and from school. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Behavioral Health
Kids
Philadelphia

Philly’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.

7 years ago

Listen 6:25
The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre. (Cameron Pollack/NPR)
NPR
Books

How 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.

7 years ago

Board of Education President Joyce Wilkerson swears in Alfredo Praticó and Julia Frank as student representatives on the board. (Darryl C. Murphy/The Notebook)
The Notebook
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

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.

7 years ago

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