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A Vermont college center gives Pennsylvania and Delaware a grade of F in efforts to teach financial literacy in their high schools. (Center for Financial Literacy)
Delaware
K-12
Personal Finance

Pennsylvania, Delaware high schools get an F for financial literacy classes

Pennsylvania and Delaware are among nine states to receive a grade of F for teaching personal finance to high school students, according ...

8 years ago

The principal is apologizing after sixth graders at Talley Middle School were given an assignment that required them to draw a picture or
Delaware
K-12
Policing

Principal apologizes after 6th graders tasked to draw fictional addict's 'mug shot'

A sixth grade health class assignment that required students to write about a fictional drug addict reaching rock bottom and to draw thei ...

8 years ago

(Nick Ut/AP Photo, file)
Food & Drink
K-12
New Jersey

Fewer N.J. schools providing breakfast to kids in need

300,000 New Jersey kids in low-income families are not getting the nutrition at school they need to help them pay attention and reduce behavioral problems, advocates say.

8 years ago

Students arrive on the first day of school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Politics

Committee shuffle could make difference for Pa. school choice bill

Senate Bill 2 would create education savings accounts — a similar concept to private school vouchers.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Temple’s first Rhodes Scholar, Hazim Hardeman

In this segment, we meet HAZIM HAR ...

8 years ago

Listen 18:30
Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene A. DePasquale, speaks after he was sworn in for his second term at the Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017.
Pennsylvania

Pa. auditor general says Chester Upland school district in ‘chaos’

When the district moved its administrative offices five years ago, it lost many of the school records. Those it retained were incomplete or disorganized.

8 years ago

Teacher Syreeta Thomas works with Kahleel Odom during Ethel Allen Elementary School's hour of coding.
The Notebook
Philadelphia
Technology

Coding: The new literacy?

8 years ago

The board of the  Christina School District wants to delay the Carney administration's plan to close three Wilmington elementary schools and put the students into two existing schools that would have children in kindergarten through eighth grade. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Christina school closure proposal — which timetable is best?

The Christina school board has endorsed a plan to close three Wilmington elementary schools and convert two others into K-8 buildings, bu ...

8 years ago

Listen 1:53
(Photo/bigstockphoto.com)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Delaware principal who embezzled $162,000 gets 18 months in prison

A federal judge has sentenced the former principal of a New Castle charter school to 18 months in prison for embezzling $162,000 over a f ...

8 years ago

Superintendent William Hite says Philadelphia has already started supplying schools with more computers, adapting curricula and urging students to take advantage of more online learning resources. (AP file photo)
K-12
Philadelphia

Philly launches effort to expand K-12 computer science classes

The project, called CS4Philly, is aimed at encouraging students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

8 years ago

A proposed anti-discrimination policy for Delaware schools would, among other provisions, allow students to use the bathroom that aligns to their gender identity. 
All gender restroom sign at a school. (Photo via Bigstockphoto)
Delaware
K-12
LGBTQ

Delay for anti-bias policy in Delaware schools

The proposal allows students to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity and pick a preferred name other than their birth name without notifying their parents.

8 years ago

Listen 1:31
Graphic reporting by Jim Nuttle from Katrina Stevens' presentation about evaluating education technology.
Speak Easy
Business
Innovation
Technology

Can we make purchasing classroom tech more like buying a car?

Schools nationwide are spending over $13 billion in K-12 alone and have little idea if any of it works. We can’t afford to spend this kind of money blindly.

8 years ago

Gov. John Carney faced a host of questions during a boisterous town hall meeting Wednesday at Stubbs Elementary School, one of three Wilmington school eyed for closing under a proposal by his administration and other education leaders. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Politics

Christina school closure plan met with concerns, resentment

Gov. John Carney's quest to improve high-poverty, low-performing Wilmington schools crystallized this week but not with a lots of criticism from parents.

8 years ago

Listen 1:53
Comedian Bill Cosby at Temple University's commencement Thursday, May 12, 2011, in Philadelphia.  (Matt Rourke/AP Photo, file)
Higher Education

Schools cut ties with honorees accused of sexual misconduct

Dozens of U.S. colleges have bestowed honors upon prominent men from Hollywood to the nation's capital who have recently been accused of sexual misconduct.

8 years ago

Under a proposal by the Christina School District and the 
Carney administration, three schools would be closed and two expanded.  Those slated for possible closure are, clockwise from left, Palmer, Pulaski and Stubbs elementary schools. (Christina School District)
Delaware
K-12
Kids
Politics

Christina district, state working on proposal to close 3 schools

Christina School District is considering a plan to close three Wilmington elementary schools and expand two others in the city, according to a confidential memo.

8 years ago

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