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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg. (WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
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Pa. school funding lawsuit inches forward, though roadblocks remain

A lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s education funding system inched forward Monday, delivering a incremental victory to the plaintiffs ...

8 years ago

Investigative journalist  Thomas Huchon writes five questions that can be used to evaluate the veracity of a news story. (Pete Kiehart for NPR)
NPR
K-12
Media

A conspiracy video teaches kids a lesson about fake news

Widespread concerns about the inability of many people in France to tell a real news story from a fake one have led this French journalist to visit 81 schools since 2016.

8 years ago

Teaching diagrams line the walls of the riding arena at Midway University. (Noah Adams/NPR)
NPR
Sports

On Derby Day, visiting a college where you can major in horses

An hour's drive from Churchill Downs, students and staff at Midway University may not find time to watch, because they're taking care of their own horses.

8 years ago

Delaware Campaign for Achievement Now has created a website that educates the public about school board candidates and aims to boost what WHYY found has been absymal turnout for board elections in recent years. (Courtesy of Delaware Campaign for Achievement Now)
Delaware
K-12

Website aims to increase abysmal school board election turnout in Del.

There are 25 seats up for grabs on Delaware's school boards on Tuesday. But if history is any guide, fewer than 2 percent of the eligible voters will cast ballots.

8 years ago

Swarthmore student Morgin Goldberg sits in the office of Liz Braun, dean of students, in protest of the college's response to sexual assault allegations. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Higher Education

Angered by college response to sexual assault, Swarthmore students stage sit-in

Since Tuesday, activists have camped out in the offices of two deans they want fired.

8 years ago

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Paul Vallas is shown meeting with potential voters during his failed 2014 campaign to be Illinois' Lt Governor.  (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Former Philly Schools CEO Paul Vallas running for mayor of Chicago

Former Philadelphia Schools chief executive officer Paul Vallas is running for mayor in Chicago. Vallas is no stranger to Chicago, ...

8 years ago

Philadelphia High School seniors take photos with Michelle Obama, Rebel Wilson, Robert De Niro, and Bradley Cooper. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Higher Education
K-12
Philadelphia

Michelle Obama, cavalcade of stars urge Philly students toward college

College Signing Day turned North Philadelphia into West Hollywood, all in the service of spurring more Philly students to college.

8 years ago

Private investigator Tina Blanchette rides around on a surveillance mission.
Keystone Crossroads

‘The money shot’: How school districts find and prove residency fraud

Many districts monitor students to make sure they actually live within district boundaries and aren't using a fake address, but what does that monitoring actually entail?

8 years ago

Listen 6:40
The timeline of federal K-12 education law. (Pa. Department of Education)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12

Under ESSA, the newest federal K-12 education law, parents will get more information about their kids’ schools

The Every Student Succeeds Act replaces No Child Left Behind, the controversial plan that caused upheaval in some schools.

8 years ago

Dominique London weeps as she calls out the names of students killed by gun violence during an assembly at Mastery Shoemaker charter school.
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Packed crowd in West Philly presses mayor and police on gun violence

Mastery Charter Schools hosted its first ever “action assembly” in West Philadelphia Monday night to engage public officials about how to make their neighborhoods safer.

8 years ago

Octavia Durham is surrounded by five of the seven grandchildren that live with her and attend the Pottsgrove public schools., (from left) Mason Dargan, 5, Tarienah Chandler Smith, 9, Miyana Francis, 14, K'Lliyah Smith, 15, and Mikhi Dargan, 9.
Keystone Crossroads

Suburban schools’ residency enforcement mostly affects kids of color

When school districts remove students for residency fraud, they say they're enforcing rules and protecting taxpayers. Others see a system that targets the poor and minorities.

8 years ago

Listen 6:39
Will Knight, Smyrna's humble football superstar, has battled hardship in becoming one of Delaware's all-time great high school football players. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Sports

Smyrna's Will Knight, humble football superstar, triumphs over hardship

Fate continues to haunt Knight and his family. But he has worked tirelessly to overcome hardship and heartbreak as a good son, brother, student, teammate.

8 years ago

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Dakota Johnson, 8, who survived a fire at her dad's apartment. (Jessica Kourkounis/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

As awareness of childhood trauma rises, new free therapy program launches for Philly students

The fire that destroyed her dad’s third-floor apartment is the scariest thing that’s ever happened to 8-year-old Dakota Johnson. It w ...

8 years ago

Listen 5:12
(Lilli Carre for NPR)
NPR

What ‘A nation at risk’ got wrong, and right, about U.S. schools

8 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney presents his FY 2019 budget to state lawmakers at the Delaware Public Archives in Dover. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Business
Delaware
Economic Development

Delaware gets $3.2 million for career training program

Delaware’s efforts to make sure students are ready for the jobs of tomorrow got a $3.2 million boost from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

8 years ago

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