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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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Education

 5th grade students attend class at John Wister Elementary, a Mastery Charter school, in Philadelphia, Pa. (Jessica Kourkounis/For Keystone Crossroads)
Keystone Crossroads

Pre-K access, teacher race, and more: Five notable facts about Pa. public schools

Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released a draft of its plan to comply with the new federal education law, the Every ...

8 years ago

 Mastery Charter High School at 35 S. 4th Street. (Emma Lee/ WHYY)
K-12

The charter bump: Philly researcher finds charters boost public schools … in NYC

When charter schools move into a neighborhood, people often wonder what will happen to the traditional public schools nearby. Will ...

8 years ago

 This class on flight is part of the Summer Learning Collaborative that seeks to reduce the achievement gap between low-income children and those of means. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
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Delaware
Income Inequality
K-12

Collaborating to cut Delaware’s low-income school achievement gap

Catherine Lindroth has had a singular mission the last five summers — reducing the huge achievement gap in Delaware between low-income ...

8 years ago

Dejah Hall makes a point during the final round of debates at George Washington Carver High School's Summer Debate Academy, where middle schoolers and rising high school students hone their skills for the academic year. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Debate club: ‘Fight Club’ for thinkers

Debate club tends to attract kids who really like arguing. And for the kids who really, really like arguing, there’s Philadelphia ...

8 years ago

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Dejah Hall makes a point during the final round of debates at George Washington Carver High School's Summer Debate Academy, where middle schoolers and rising high school students hone their skills for the academic year. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Debate club: ‘Fight Club’ for thinkers

Debate club tends to attract kids who really like arguing. And for the kids who really, really like arguing, there’s Philadelphia ...

8 years ago

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New Jersey

Rutgers seminar to focus on retraining to stay in the workforce

The Dow Jones is at an all-time high and the U.S. labor market is near full employment, with the jobless rate at 4.4 percent. And yet, ...

8 years ago

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 Cheyney students (from right) Shaquille Harrison, Nyrie Watson and Shaneka Briggs link arms as they make their way to Gov. Tom Wolf's Philadelphia office on Eighth Street to deliver a letter demanding funds for the struggling historically black university. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

With school on the brink, Cheyney backers rally in Philadelphia

With the future of their school at risk, graduates and supporters of the nation’s first black college are trying to rally. And they ...

8 years ago

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 Alejandra Villamares (keft), shown with TeenSHARP director Tatiana Poladko, has earned a full scholarship to Wesleyan University with the agency's assistance. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
Higher Education

Immigrant student gets Wesleyan scholarship, thanks to TeenSHARP

The nonprofit has helped dozens of students from the Philadelphia region get accepted to top schools, now TeenSHARP is branching out ...

8 years ago

 Members of the Pennsylvania State Education Association stage a rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on March 4, 2001. (Kalim A. Bhatti/AP File Photo)

Pennsylvania State Education Association’s next president isn’t a teacher

This September, Pennsylvania’s teacher’s union will have a new leader. And she won’t be a former teacher. Dolore ...

8 years ago

Students in the HIAS Pa. Middle School Summer Education Program created musical instruments. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Mixing arts and academics helps immigrant kids feel at home in Philly

The kids crowded into a second-floor classroom at Gilbert Spruance School in Northeast Philadelphia came from every corner of the world: ...

8 years ago

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Philly schools failing to prevent bullying of disabled students, complaint alleges

The School District of Philadelphia has systematically failed to investigate or intervene when students bully their disabled peers, accor ...

8 years ago

 Francisca Castelli and her son, James. James was a student at Wordsworth Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania.
K-12
Philadelphia

Segregated and satisfied: parents of special ed students blanch at calls for inclusion

While advocates call for major changes, some special education parents demand their children stay in specialized private schools. ...

8 years ago

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Delaware

Del. test scores show too many students behind in math, English

Delaware students made incremental gains and losses this year in both English and math, and mostly lost ground in science, according to r ...

8 years ago

Speak Easy
K-12
Philadelphia

Solving summer learning loss on the court and in the classroom

The term “summer slide” may conjure images of water parks or amusement rides. Unfortunately, however, it describes a serious ...

8 years ago

Income Inequality
New Jersey
Real Estate

In Camden, a castle under siege

This October, Camden is poised to experience a loss as devastating to the troubled city’s spirit as a funeral for one of its many m ...

8 years ago

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