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Education

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Philadelphia selects Catapult to replace Wordsworth for special education teaching

The School Reform Commission Thursday voted to establish a new in-house special education program for 100 students, most diagnosed with s ...

8 years ago

 Members of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission and Superintendent William Hite meet in May. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

After opposition from advocates, Philly district scales back plan for new special-ed program

The School District of Philadelphia has significantly downsized plans for a new special-education program after advocates and lawmakers r ...

8 years ago

Debbie Supplee, librarian at Dickinson High School,
Books
Delaware
K-12

Delaware’s endangered education species — the school librarian

Fewer and fewer Delaware schools have certified librarian as principals look to put more educators in the classroom. Every morning ...

8 years ago

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Across region, mixed results for schools in state budget deals

There’s been plenty of drama in state capitols this year as lawmakers face tight budgets and the specter of elections looming next ...

8 years ago

 Leslie Birch will teach a course on wearable technology at The Hacktory (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

West Philly makerspace offering tech summer camp…for adults

Summer camp — it’s not just for kids anymore. The Hacktory, a West Philadelphia makerspace, is introducing a new set of su ...

8 years ago

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Speak Easy
Philadelphia
Taxes

Saving public education depends on transcending intractable politics

The problem with public education is not the children but the adults. It is paramount we deconstruct underpinnings behind partisan gridlock.

8 years ago

 Southwark School, one of nine designated as community schools in Philadelphia, is in an area of the city that is gentrifying. (Wikipedia.org)
K-12
Philadelphia

One year in, Philadelphia’s community schools turn to tangible improvements

It's been an explosive start for community schools, Mayor Jim Kenney's signature K-12 education initiative.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Higher Education
Philadelphia

Philadelphia and Thomas Jefferson universities to merge

In the world of higher education, one plus one equals one. Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University are merging. He ...

8 years ago

 Artist Jim Nuttle captured Leah Buechley's Learning Innovation presentation on May 23.
Speak Easy
Higher Education
Income Inequality
K-12

Does technology exacerbate educational inequality?

Designer, engineer, and educator Leah Buechley has spent her career encouraging kids, particularly girls, to experiment creatively with t ...

8 years ago

 Former Mayor and Governor Ed Rendell speaks to crowd supported by from left:  Former Mayor Bill Green Sr., Mayor Michael Nutter, Councilwoman Sanchez, Former Mayor John Street and Former Councilman Bill Green Jr.

Summer program invites the public to see the Delaware River in a new way

Environmental educational centers along the Delaware River watershed are joining forces to raise awareness about the 13,500 square mile s ...

8 years ago

School District of Philadelphia (Emma Lee / WHYY)
Philadelphia

After grilling from Council, Philly district answers questions on suburbanites in city schools

Every spring, City Council members pepper School District of Philadelphia officials with questions during the district’s annual bud ...

8 years ago

 Daguerreotype of Jonah Thompson, c. 1847 (Library Company of Philadelphia)
Speak Easy
History
K-12
Race & Ethnicity

The unfulfilled dream of the School District of Philadelphia

When the School District of Philadelphia has a major problem, poor old Jonah Thompson is surely fidgeting in his grave. And the district ...

8 years ago

 Ryan Olan, rising sophomore, is traveling to Ghana with classmates from  Mastery High School of Camden.(Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

Camden kids travel to Ghana on journey of self-discovery

Terrance Cosby has never flown in a plane before. He’s always lived in Camden, and he’s never traveled farther than North Jer ...

8 years ago

 Gov. John Carney told school leaders Friday
Delaware
Economy
Taxes

‘I can sell’ non-referendum tax increase, Carney tells school leaders [video]

Calling a feared backlash by voters an “inconvenient consequence,” Gov. John Carney urged a small contingent of upstate schoo ...

8 years ago

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 CAPA choral director Dorina Morrow leads a choir of students. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
Music
Philadelphia

Final note: After 42 years, Philly music teacher steps away

Dorina Morrow began her career as a public school music teacher in the fall of 1975. She still remembers what she wore her first day: sti ...

8 years ago

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