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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Higher Education
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If ‘free college’ sounds too good to be true, that’s because it often is

To millions of parents and students, they're magical words: free college. But is the idea pure fantasy?

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April Ellis weighs some bananas at the Island Avenue Shoprite in Southwest Philadelphia while shopping with her grandchildren,  Kalanni and Shareef. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Kids

Turning chores into classrooms: New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

If you’re grocery shopping in Philadelphia over the next year you might run into a cherubic cartoon character named A.J.

8 years ago

Students from McCall School in South Philadelphia walk home on Sept. 6, 2018. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania
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Sweltering schools bring up age-old infrastructure problem in Pennsylvania

The state put a moratorium on its reimbursement program for school construction in 2015.

8 years ago

Freshmen at St. Louis Park High School, just outside of Minneapolis, take time out of their social studies class for a team-building exercise that is part of the school’s Building Assets, Reducing Risks program. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)
K-12

A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school

Using a holistic approach with students to “catch those coughs before they become pneumonia.”

8 years ago

Students are released from George A. McCall School at noon Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, because of the heat. It was the fifth early dismissal for heat for the Philadelphia School district since the school year began
K-12
Public Health

Blazing back-to-school temperatures pose public health threat to students

Only about a quarter of Philadelphia public schools have air conditioning.

8 years ago

McKean High School teachers Rebecca Sheehan and Jaimin Carter both hope to take advantage of a new Delaware law that could pay up to $10,000  of their student loans over five years. (Cris Barrish/WHYY News)
Delaware
K-12

To draw teachers to high-needs schools, Del. offers to repay $10k of their student loans

Gov. John Carney calls the measure the most important legislative accomplishment of the year.

8 years ago

Cherry and white Temple University flag hangs outside of old stone buildings
Higher Education

After Temple scandal, more colleges misreport data, stripped of U.S. News rankings

Temple is still providing verified numbers to its business accrediting body, the Pennsylvania attorney general and federal institutions.

8 years ago

Students walk to school in Philadelphia. (AP file photo)
K-12
Philadelphia

Philly teachers union, City Council member lose their cool over early dismissals

On Wednesday, with high temperatures expected to reach the low 90s yet again, the School District of Philadelphia will dismiss students at noon

8 years ago

Bishop McDevitt High School in Wyncote, Pa. (Google Maps)
Religion

Just in time for school start, Philly-area Catholic high school teachers OK contract

The union representing about 600 teachers at the Philadelphia Archdiocese's 17 high schools last went on strike in 2011.

8 years ago

State Sen. Pat Browne, R-Lehigh.
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

With new proposal, trauma-informed care could become standard in Pa. schools

If a pair of powerful Pennsylvania state senators get their way, a ...

8 years ago

Students walk to school in Philadelphia. (AP file photo)

After heat-shortened week, Philly to reconsider August school start

Parents, teachers, and students may not be in the clear yet, The district is monitoring temperatures next week, which are forecast to reach the low 90s.

8 years ago

Merv Daugherty (right), outgoing superintendent of Red Clay Consolidated School District, was recently interviewed on WHYY's
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Delaware
K-12

Head of Delaware’s largest school district takes Virginia post

Daugherty has been with Red Clay for 18 years and been an assistant principal, principal and administrator before becoming superintendent nine years ago.

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Home & Family

Villanova researchers help first-gen students trailblaze into freshman year

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn talks with Stacey Havlik and Krista Malott, researchers at Villanova who have studied first-generation students in our area.

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Michi Marshall, wife of NFL wide-receiver Brandon Marshall, talks about her husband's mental illness during a day of mental health first aid training for teachers at String Theory Charter School.
Behavioral Health
K-12
Philadelphia

Philly charter school trains teachers, staff in youth mental health first aid

Hundreds took part in the trainings provided by the city’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services and a national organization, Project 375.

8 years ago

Books for sale in the college bookstore at the University of Miami. (Jeffrey Greenberg/UIG via Getty Images)
Higher Education

Nothing says welcome to college like exorbitant textbook prices

When the cost of a textbook could feed a family of four for a week.

8 years ago

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