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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Eagles player Malcolm Jenkins (center left) speaks about financial literacy to students at Bodine High School in Philadelphia (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
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Competition is on the money in enhancing financial literacy for Philly students

Sophia Santiago wants to be an astronomer — with an average salary of $110,000 ...

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K-12
Philadelphia

Philly’s youngest learners show reading growth, but math scores flat

Philadelphia's youngest public school students made notable gains in reading last year, according to state test scores released Wednesday.

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Courageous Conversations: Reimagining Race and Education forum at Enon Tabernacle Church, on Thursday night. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Philadelphia
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Social Justice

An evening of frank talk about race, inequity in Philly, area schools

When Otis Hackney, Philadelphia’s Chief Education Officer, was in Amsterdam this spring he happened upon an exhibit detailing the h ...

8 years ago

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Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

Delaware softens ‘zero-tolerance’ policy for weapons at school

Students caught with weapons other than a gun at Delaware schools won’t automatically face being expelled under a bill signed into law Friday afternoon.

8 years ago

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and his wife, Aileen (center), listen as Hackett School third-grader Madison Boudreaux reads. Through their foundation, the Robertses donated $450,000 to put books in Philadelphia public school classrooms. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Books
K-12
Philadelphia

Comcast’s Brian and Aileen Roberts give $450,000 for Philly school books

Roberts' gift completed a $3.5 million campaign to put "leveled" books in every one of the district's K-3 classrooms, capping the drive a year earlier than expected.

8 years ago

Jameira Miller pictured with her mother, Jamella, and brother Bryant at their Landsdowne home was featured in a new documentary on the National Geographic Channel about educational divides. The Millers are named along with other families and area school districts in a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Education over the quality of public education in the state (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks, file)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Philadelphia

Those challenging fairness of Pa. school funding will have day in court

In a decision that could eventually shake Pennsylvania’s educational landscape, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a lawsu ...

8 years ago

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Delaware
K-12
Kids

3 Delaware elementary schools National Blue Ribbon winners

Three Delaware elementary schools -- two in Sussex County and one in New Castle county -- are among the 342 across America named National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2017.

8 years ago

Cheltenham High School
History
K-12
Race & Ethnicity

The promise and peril of Cheltenham: Race and education in a changing suburban school district

Cheltenham has long been at the forefront of racial integration. After a fight at the local high school, the trailblazing community is grappling with big questions.

8 years ago

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Elbert-Palmer Elementary School in Wilmington's Southbridge neighborhood has been selected for a $106,832 state
Behavioral Health
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Needy Delaware schools get $1 million in ‘opportunity’ grants’

Nine Delaware school districts and charter schools have received a total of $1 million in so-called "opportunity grants." the governor's office announced Tuesday.

8 years ago

Jameria Miller, (left), pictured with her mother Jamella, sister Kene, brother Bryant and cousin Braylon at their Landsdowne home. The Millers are featured in an upcoming documentary on the National Geographic Channel. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
K-12
Pennsylvania
Technology

Delaware County student who’s stood on both sides of digital divide featured in new NatGeo documentary

A new documentary looks at the "digital divide" between public schools across the country — those that have access to computers and the internet and those that don't.

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania Department of Education Secretary Pedro Rivera (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12

Ideological debate over low-performing schools underlies Pa. plan to comply with new federal education law

Every state in the U.S. was required to submit a proposal to the federal government by last week on how it will comply with the new feder ...

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania Department of Education Secretary Pedro Rivera (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Law
Pennsylvania

Ideological debate over low-performing schools underlies Pa. plan to comply with new federal education law

Every state in the U.S. was required to submit a proposal to the federal government by last week on how it will comply with the new feder ...

8 years ago

About 250 people gathered at St. Patrick's Church in Norristown, Pa. to pray for victims of this week's earthquake in Mexico and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

One Norristown church, in the crosshairs of two natural disasters, gathers to pray

The majority Latino St. Patrick’s Church in Norristown held a special Mass Thursday night to provide healing, relief and catharsis ...

8 years ago

An elementary school teacher instructs students to put their hands over their heads. (AP File Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Report on ‘chronic teacher absenteeism’ in Pa. highlights union’s role, spurs further questions

A new report finds that teachers in traditional public schools are almost three times as likely to be chronically absent as teachers in c ...

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Campuses across Pa. reeling from racial bias incidents

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8 years ago

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