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It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Business
Economic Development
Higher Education

To land Amazon, we must shift academic programs to meet workforce needs

With Philadelphia among the cities vying for Amazon’s second headquarters, it’s a perfect time to analyze whether our students are prepared for tomorrow’s workforce.

8 years ago

Christopher Emdin
K-12
Kids
Race & Ethnicity

What teachers need to know about connecting with students in urban schools

Christopher Emdin says it's time to do things differently in urban classrooms so students aren't left thinking "You don't get me."

8 years ago

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A man at a podium outside the Penn Wood High School
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Law
Pennsylvania

Pa. public school advocates meet in Delco, joyous to get their day in court

Public education advocates gathered Wednesday in Southeastern Pennsylvania to celebrate a recent state Su ...

8 years ago

Pa. Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania
Taxes

Uncertainty swirls around Pa. property tax amendment that will soon go before voters

A constitutional change before Pennsylvania voters could lower property taxes and shake up school funding. Or it could do nothing at all.

8 years ago

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Protesters including retired teacher Ron Whitehorne (left) at a recent School Reform Commission meeting demanded that the body vote to dissolve itself and return the Philadelphia School District to local control.
The Notebook
K-12
Philadelphia

Kenney administration moving quickly to set up transition from SRC to local control

"Friends of" groups are being asked to suggest names for nominating committee and for a new nine-member Board of Education.

8 years ago

Community meeting
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Coatesville parents, students confront school officials over response to racist incidents

School district officials in Coatesville held a special meeting where they got an earful from students and parents about recent racist events that rocked the high school.

8 years ago

Delaware State University President Harry Williams announced his plans to join the Thurgood Marshall College Fund as he received the group's Educational Leadership Award at the TMCF 30th Anniversary Awards Gala. in Washington, D.C. (Nichelle Polston/WHYY)
Delaware
Higher Education

Search for new DSU President could take a year

Who will replace outgoing Delaware State University President Harry Williams? The search for a new president to lead Delaware State University will be an intense one.

8 years ago

Harry Lee Williams, president of Delaware State University since 2009, will head the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. (File/WHYY)
Delaware
Higher Education

Delaware State University President Harry Williams to head Thurgood Marshall Fund; leaves DSU in January

Harry Lee Williams, president of Delaware State University since 2010, is leaving the Dover campus to lead the Thurgood Marshall College ...

8 years ago

Oswald Darway, a 10th grader at Valley Day School, works with a virtual reality program.
Behavioral Health
Philadelphia
Technology

To reach special needs students, Bucks County school turns to virtual reality

There is a classroom in Morrisville, Bucks County unlike any other in Southeast Pennsylvania. Administrators think the technology inside could unlock students' potential.

8 years ago

University of Delaware leaders join other dignitaries in the ceremonial groundbreaking for UD's new Biopharmaceutical Innovation Building. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Delaware
Higher Education
Medicine

University of Delaware breaks ground on biopharmaceutical research center

The facility, to be located on UD’s STAR campus, will house the national headquarters for the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals,

8 years ago

Philadelphia Eagles' Chris Long (56)
Philadelphia
Sports

Eagles' Chris Long gives up millions to help kids find better education

When the Eagles take the field against Washington tonight, defensive lineman Chris Long will be playing for free and for the rest of the season.

8 years ago

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Students at Las Americas ASPIRA Academyu, a Delaware charter school, gather in the new auditorium for the presentation of summer reading awards. Scholastic Inc. honored them as the best in Delaware. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids
Race & Ethnicity

Delaware dual language school honored for summer reading

Since opening seven years ago Las Americas ASPIRA has become a magnet for parents who wants their children to speak Spanish and English.

8 years ago

 A child holds up a sign at recent rally calling for an end to the School Reform Commission.  (Tom MacDonald/ WHYY)
K-12
Philadelphia

Was Thursday the beginning of the end for Philly’s SRC?

Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission heard a presentation on a road map for disbanding itself.

8 years ago

Close-up of a standardized test.
Delaware
K-12

More Delaware students taking, passing Advanced Placement courses

In the past 10 years, the increase in the number of Delaware students taking and scoring well in AP courses far outpaces the rise in high school enrollment.

8 years ago

Two schoolboys seated at desks, one turned to the other talking, a book between them,
NewsWorks Tonight
Books
K-12
Philadelphia

Asante’s 'Buck': Philly memoir will soon be film. Will districtwide curriculum be next?

“Buck,” a gritty coming-of-age tale about one young man’s evolution from thug to scholar, was published in 2013 and praised by critics for its honesty and poetic language.

8 years ago

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