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Education

Students walk on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia. Temple has started a master’s degree in sport business, among the 41,446 degree or certificate programs colleges and universities have added since 2012. (Matt Rourke/The Associated Press)
Higher Education
National

Panicked universities in search of students are adding thousands of new majors

Despite tight budgets and high risks, colleges hope niche degrees will spur demand.

8 years ago

(LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Public Safety

Bills and bulletproof backpacks: Safety measures for a new school year

Some parents are even investing in bulletproof school supplies.

8 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf
Keystone Crossroads
Criminal Justice
K-12

New Pa. school safety funding on track for March 2019

The funds are part of a bipartisan bill signed into law in the months after the Parkland, Florida school shooting that killed 17 people.

8 years ago

Radio Times
K-12
Philadelphia

Philadelphia teacher roundtable

Guests: Michael Southerton, Gerald Dessus, Monique Trauger The school year is almost underway. Teachers are busy ...

Air Date: August 16, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:56
 Students filing into South Philadelphia High School on the first day of school. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Philly schools are opening earlier this year, and district officials want you to know it

Monday, Aug. 27. You’re going to hear that date a lot from Philadelphia officials over the next week and a half.

8 years ago

Colorado School District 27J has adopted a four-day school schedule in an attempt to save about $1 million a year.
(James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images)
NPR
K-12

Colorado school district switches to 4-day week to save money

A Colorado school district intent on saving money has cut one of its greatest costs: teaching.

8 years ago

Teaching civics to students can help them be more engaged voters.
NPR

How to make a civics education stick

How do you teach kids to be active participants in government? Or to tell the difference between real news and fake news?

8 years ago

Some children start the school year early not to get a better education, but to have a nutritious meal and shelter during the day. (Cheryl Gerber/The Hechinger Report)
K-12

The invisible signs to look for on the first day of school

Hunger and homelessness hamper kids’ ability to learn.

8 years ago

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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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