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Education

The Titusville High School football team warms up before the homecoming game (Kevin McCorry/Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania

Smart Talk: Challenges and changes to rural education in Pennsylvania

Keystone Crossroads’ Kevin McCorry travelled throughout rural Pa. to learn about the students, educators and families that struggle to provide a promising education.

7 years ago

Taryn Canty-Reed, 20, (front), says young people in her generation have experienced abandonment and have also abandoned themselves. Now it’s time for them to chase opportunities, said the YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School student attending a press conference in City Hall Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. (Jane M. Von Bergen/The Notebook)
The Notebook
Economic Development
K-12

Philly to spend $6M to connect disadvantaged youths to jobs

The program will use state money to provide workforce training to 1,000 who already receive some form of government support.

7 years ago

Waliyyuddin Abdullah drops off daughter Florrie, a first grader, at Powel School in West Philadelphia. Abdullah chose Powel over his neighborhood school in North Philadelphia.
Income Inequality
K-12
Philadelphia

The Philly school choice system no one is talking about

Every year, thousands of Philadelphia families choose a traditional public school outside their neighborhood. So is that a good thing, a bad thing or something else?

7 years ago

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A Delaware high school suspended a 10th grader for wearing a kufi to school, but the American Civil Liberties Union intervened and the school rescinded its action. (Bigstock Photo)
Delaware
K-12
Religion

ACLU gets school to rescind Muslim student’s suspension for wearing kufi

The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware recently intervened to have a school overturn the suspension of a 10th grade Muslim student.

7 years ago

Delaware State University (Provided, file)
Delaware

New documentary traces history of Delaware State University

A partnership between the Delaware Humanities Forum and the Welfare Foundation is bringing the history of Delaware State University to life.

7 years ago

This autonomous robot is one of five used by Project Recover to find downed U.S. military aircraft from  World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars. (Courtesy of Project Recover)
Delaware
Higher Education
Military

UD scientist has major role in discovering long-lost military airmen

A serendipitous meeting in 2013 on the Pacific island of Palau culminated in the recent burial of an airman who died during a World War II combat mission.

7 years ago

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Spring Garden School is one of several schools whose outdated heating system would cost more to repair than to replace.
Energy
K-12
Philadelphia

Heating problems in Philly schools rise as temperatures plunge

Philadelphia School District facilities workers have been on the job since Christmas to fix faulty heating units. It's a $70M problem.

7 years ago

A six-year-old Chinese immersion program in Delaware elementary schools now has more than 1,000 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Next year the initiative will expand to middle school. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
First
Delaware
International
K-12

Mandarin magic in Delaware K-5 classrooms

Foreign language has been a staple of high school education for years, but in Delaware, more than 1,000 Delaware elementary students spend half their day learning in Chinese.

7 years ago

Listen 5:09
Parent Eva Sanchez talks about her strategies for getting her kids up and out to school every morning. Sanchez is a participant in the #AttendanceHero social media campaign to improve attendance at Philadelphia schools.
K-12
Kids
Philadelphia

Philly schools looking for an #AttendanceHero

The School District of Philadelphia wants to know how you get your kids up and out in the morning.

7 years ago

Farmland on the outskirts of the Titusville School District (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Economy
K-12
Pennsylvania

Rural Pa. public schools look to break cycle of struggle, welfare, and addiction in the Northwest

Titusville’s story is echoed across many towns in Pennsylvania, where a solid middle-class workforce was once sustained by no more than a high school degree.

7 years ago

Young man with hands clasped together praying
K-12
Mental Health
New Jersey

Mercer County, N.J., school officials set meeting on rising teen suicide rate

Seven suicides among teens in Mercer County, New Jersey, have the county’s school superintendents calling for action.

7 years ago

Middle school students change classes (Jessica Kourkounis for WHYY, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Business
K-12

New federal tax ‘loophole’ could stoke interest in private school donations in Pa.

A new analysis found wealthy individuals and high-profit businesses in Pennsylvania and nine other states may make money when they donate to private school scholarships.

7 years ago

This 1793 grave is an early version of the kilogram. It is possible this object, now owned by the National Institute of Standards and Technology museum, was once pirate treasure. (NIST Museum)
NPR
History

How pirates of the Caribbean hijacked America’s metric system

In 1793, the brand new United States of America needed a standard measuring system because the states were using a hodgepodge of systems.

7 years ago

Like several of his GOP colleagues in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Bucks, is trying to maintain some distance from President Donald Trump. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
National
Philadelphia
Politics

Bipartisan alternative education bill has Philly-region sponsors

The U.S. House GOP is moving forward with a highly partisan proposal that would revamp federal student loan programs. Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick opposes the plan.

7 years ago

Listen 5:00
At the June 15 School Reform Commission meeting, demonstrators carried signs calling for the SRC to vote itself out of existence and return the school district to city control. (David Hornbeck/The Notebook)
NewsWorks Tonight
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Wolf administration greenlights returning Philly schools to local control

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera officially approved the demise of Philadelphia School Reform Commission, return of the school district to city control.

7 years ago

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