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NPR
K-12
National
Public Safety

How school walkouts test student rights and school responsibilities

"It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

7 years ago

Caesar Rodney School District's public information officer recently removed comments critical of the superintendent's opposition to the upcoming student walkout. The ACLU cried foul, and the district has relented. (Caesar Rodney School District)
Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

ACLU to school district: Stop censoring student Facebook criticisms over gun violence walkout

After Caesar Rodney Schools chief prohibited students and teachers from taking part in the Wednesday walkout over gun violence, the district deleted online complaints.

7 years ago

Members of the University of Pennsylvania's nurse-midwifery program's Class of 2017 are working to establish a scholarship fund for students of color. (Courtesy of Nicole Chaney)
Health Care
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Scholarship fund aims to make Philly midwife ranks more diverse

The vast majority — more than 90 percent — of American College of Nurse-Midwives members are white. Some recent grads of Penn’s nurse-midwifery program want to change that.

7 years ago

Science Leadership Academy student activists (from left) Tamir Harper, Ella Burrows, Horace Ryans, Kaamil Jones and Zoey Tweh. (
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics
Public Safety

Voices behind the walkout: Science Leadership Academy

Students weigh in on gun violence and the upcoming National School Walkout.

7 years ago

Listen 3:04
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Mike Chitwood (AP, file)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Upper Darby police chief proposes arming teachers, but school board pushes back

Less than a month after Upper Darby's outspoken police superintendent proposed arming teachers, the local school board passed a resolution saying it won't back the idea.

7 years ago

Maria Ramirez, left, and Eunice Millán, both freshmen at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, New Jersey, are taking physics this year as part of a “Physics First” initiative to prepare more students for STEM careers. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)
Higher Education
K-12
New Jersey

One reason students aren’t prepared for STEM careers? No physics in high school.

A shortage of physics teachers limits physics-taking, which limits the number of physics teachers

7 years ago

Wilmington University President LaVerne T. Harmon, the first black woman to head a Delaware college or university, had her formal inauguration Thursday. (Courtesy of Wilmington University)
Delaware
Higher Education

Wilmington University honors its barrier-breaking president

LaVerne Harmon’s elevation to the highest post at the nearly 50-year-old New Castle-based school was formalized Thursday during an inauguration ceremony at the Chase Center.

7 years ago

Listen 1:31
Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, center, hopes to quash a school funding lawsuit brought by districts and advocates. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

GOP lawmakers seek to stop Pa. education funding lawsuit at preliminary hearing

The lawsuit challenging Pa.’s school-funding scheme continued its slow climb through the legal system with oral arguments before the Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12

Pa. property tax opponents gear up for another fight in the Statehouse

A bipartisan group of state senators is plotting another attempt at legislation that has become something of a white whale in Pennsylvani ...

7 years ago

Gov. John Carney appeared before the Christina School District board in February and made his pitch for approval of the partnership. The Memorandum of Understanding to consolidate five schools passed 4 to 2 with one abstention. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Christina board member Meredith Griffin defends school consolidation

In February, a divided Christina school board approved the framework of a partnership with the Carney administration to consolidate five high-poverty, low-performing schools.

7 years ago

women in engineering
Speak Easy
Gender
Higher Education

More girls in the engineering career pipeline makes the world a better place

We are nearing that tipping point where women no longer feel isolated or lonely. We want to make it “normal” for women to choose engineering.

7 years ago

U.S. Senator Bob Casey visited students at Cheltenham High School, March 2, 2018.
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Anxious students question Sen. Casey at Cheltenham town hall on guns

"All I can say to you is keep going, keep fighting, keep marching, keep mobilizing," U.S. Sen. Bob Casey tells high-schoolers calling for changes in gun law.

7 years ago

Delaware Academy for Public Safety and Security is under formal review by the state, but Colonial School District has offered a helpiing hand to help the school stay open. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Delaware public school district intervenes to save failing charter school

A struggling charter high school founded six years ago to prepare students for careers in public safety is getting help from the Colonial School District.

7 years ago

Listen 1:40
Owura Kwadwo Hottish illustrates a window of Microsoft Word using colored chalk on a blackboard. He uses it to teach computer skills to students at the Betenase M/A Junior High School in Kumasi, Ghana. (Frimpong Innocent)
NPR
International
Technology

Computer teacher with no computers chalks up clever classroom plan

Could you teach computer class without a computer?

7 years ago

Top administrators (from left) schools Superintendent William Hite, Managing Director Michael DiBerardinis, Sheriff Jewel Williams, and District Attorney Larry Krasner, applaud during Mayor Jim Kenney's budget address. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia
Politics
Taxes

Kenney makes school-funding plea, council reacts

Kenney says funding the school district is critical, but council members aren't thrilled about his plan to hike property taxes.

7 years ago

Listen 4:12
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