
Education
Immigrant children are using comic books to express their fears of deportation [photos]
Comic books gave rise to Superman and Wonder Woman — and are now giving voice to kids telling their own stories about immigration. ...
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ListenAmid billions owed in student loans, U.S. taps law firms to recoup small debts from long ago
Adriene McNally received an unwanted gift on her 49th birthday in January: a notice that the federal government had placed a lien on her ...
8 years ago
Listen 6:17Here’s who’s benefitting from Philly’s pre-K expansion
As Philadelphia’s pre-K program approaches its three-month anniversary, new data on the program shows that families in PHLpreK are, ...
8 years ago
Are colleges suppressing free speech?
Guests: Samantha Harris, Jason Stanley Guest host Mary Cummings-Jordan will talk to a panel about the on-going de ...
Air Date: March 27, 2017
Listen 00:49:44Delaware students band together to play Carnegie Hall
In the beginning, nearly a decade ago, Brandywine School District orchestra director Anita Pisano migrated from building to building, hel ...
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At many Pa. colleges, black students are not benefiting amid rising graduation rates
A recent study finds graduation rates at f ...
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SRC to city, state leaders: Show us the money
Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission adopted a lump sum budget Thursday, but not before a surprisingly frisky conversation that ...
8 years ago
Del. high school dropout rate at three-decade low
Dropout rates for Delaware high school students fell to their lowest level in more than three decades in 2016 while graduation rates incr ...
8 years ago
Smooth sailing now, but choppy waters ahead for Philly school budget
Despite the expectation of a small balance of $33 million in the next fiscal year, the Philadelphia School District’s financial pic ...
8 years ago
Key witness in Spanier trial regrets not doing more
The primary witnesses for the prosecution are testifying Wednesday in the child endangerment trial of former Penn State President Graham ...
8 years ago
How music therapy is helping Philly kids with multiple disorders connect with others
Deep in the bowels of North Philadelphia’s Edison High School — down a maze of hallways that twist and turn every which way& ...
8 years ago
ListenPa. school district sued for allowing transgender student to use locker room
An 11th-grader is suing his Pennsylvania school district after it allowed a transgender student to change in the boys’ locker room. ...
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ListenArguments begin in what may be final trial of Sandusky scandal
The prosecution and defense have started laying out their arguments in day two of the trial of Graham Spanier — the former Penn State p ...
8 years ago
Drexel starts program to lessen Philadelphia’s middle school teacher shortage
With a wary eye toward the shrinking supply of Pennsylvania teachers, Drexel University has started a new program to train more middle sc ...
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Former political blogger elected president of Del. teachers union
Elementary school teacher and self-described “activist” Mike Matthews has won the runoff election for president of Delaware ...
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