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Education

As school begins anew, NewsWorks talks with Philly superintendent William Hite

Superintendent William Hite made a joke. When I sat down with Hite last week for an interview and asked him to state his name and ...

8 years ago

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 Juliet Lubwama (Avi Wilfman-Arent/WHYY)
Poetry
Race & Ethnicity

Local youth poet honored for work exploring African and African-American identity

So how does a local kid become one of the nation’s top youth poets? In Juliet Lubwama’s case, the journey started with ...

8 years ago

 Juliet Lubwama (Avi Wilfman-Arent/WHYY)

Local youth poet honored for work exploring African and African-American identity

So how does a local kid become one of the nation’s top youth poets? In Juliet Lubwama’s case, the journey started with ...

8 years ago

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 Vaux High School in Philadelphia's Sharswood neighborhood is reopening Tuesday. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
K-12
Reinvention

Vaux High School reopens as part of Sharswood revival

For the first time in nearly four years, students and teachers will show up for classes Tuesday at Roberts Vaux High School in North Phil ...

8 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
K-12

National education poll finds Americans wanting more job and career skills training in school

What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce? A ...

8 years ago

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Keystone Crossroads
K-12

National education poll finds Americans wanting more job and career skills training in school

What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce? A ...

8 years ago

 A tour group is shown walking through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Speak Easy
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity

Inclusive admission won’t hurt white students, but it will make your university better

Students of color have earned the right to be on any campus they set foot on, and their colleges and universities are better off for having them.

8 years ago

 Some area colleges are asking prospective students for their juvenile criminal history. (Bigstock)
Higher Education
Law

Philly legal aid group urging colleges to stop asking applicants about criminal record

Community Legal Services, one of Philadelphia’s largest legal assistance organizations, is pushing area colleges and universities t ...

8 years ago

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Delaware
Higher Education

Reputed Delaware diploma mill ordered to halt offers, cooperate with investigation

A Superior Court judge has ordered a Dover organization that reportedly has charged adults $500 for a “fully-accredited high school ...

8 years ago

 Floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey surround homes and businesses in Port Arthur, Texas, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo)
Travel

Floods disrupt college classes in Texas, delay some students coming to Philly region

Tropical Storm Harvey’s devastation in southeastern Texas included massive floods on college campuses. Warren Bigelow of&nbs ...

8 years ago

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Families wait for students outside Rose Avenue Public School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Home & Family
K-12
Kids

Part Four: While Pa. debates merits of Pre-K, Ontario goes all-in

Part four of our Ontario series

8 years ago

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Philly Parenting

Homeschooling is our protest

The decision to homeschool for many families is far from easy, but as a black family, it became the first time I stood upon the soapbox a ...

8 years ago

Savannah Zayas and her daughter Layla travel miles from home to find a safe, clean playground. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads
Home & Family
K-12
Kids

Don’t call it the Badlands: The story of Savannah Zayas

It’s early February, and Savannah Zayas is just four months away from proving the world wrong. When she became pregnant in middl ...

8 years ago

 City officials announce the lawsuit against the Dept. of Justice (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
Immigration

Philly sues AG Sessions to keep funding now under threat by ‘sanctuary city’ status

Philadelphia officials are suing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in federal court over “unlawful” grant conditions that p ...

8 years ago

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K-12
Medicine

Pa. urges parents to hurry up, have kids vaccinated for school

If you’re a Pennsylvania public school parent hemming and hawing over when to bring your child in for a vaccination shot, the commo ...

8 years ago

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