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Education

 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

Listen 1:48
(WITF, file)
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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.

8 years ago

A metal detector and an x-ray machine sit at the entrance of Overbrook High School in Philadelphia. (Emily Cohen for WHYY, file)
Policing
Race & Ethnicity

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.

8 years ago

Listen 2:58
(Emma Lee/WHYY)
Kids
New Jersey

New Jersey boosts preschool funding for 31 districts

Districts that were recently awarded this new round of funding include:

8 years ago

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
Keystone Crossroads
Higher Education
K-12

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.

8 years ago

Listen 1:27
Bob Cavanagh, left, and Linda Moore, center, wait in an evacuation shelter setup at the Conway High School for the arrival of Hurricane Florence on Thursday in Conway, S.C. Many schools in the area have closed or been converted to shelters for residents in the region. (Getty)
NPR
Higher Education
K-12

DeVos loses on student loans; Bezos funds preschool

The new school year marches on, and so does our weekly roundup.

8 years ago

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