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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

 Keziah Ridgeway and Charlie McGeehan are teachers in the School District of Philadelphia who believe educators and students should confront white supremacy by talking about the racially charged events like the Ku Klux Klan rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
Social Justice

How teachers can confront white supremacy in our classrooms, our schools, and ourselves

Two weeks ago, we watched in horror as white supremacists rallied around a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. We wish we ...

8 years ago

Empty classroom
Radio Times

Teacher Roundtable

Guests: KEENA CORE, ZAHMU SANKOFA and LENA NAMNUN We’re just a week away from the start of a new school year. ...

Air Date: August 25, 2017

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 Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets (Emma Lee/NewsWorks Photo, file)

Labor milestone for Philly schools as administrators approve new contract

Philly’s public school principals ratified a new contract Thursday, nudging their school district ever closer to a long-awaited mom ...

8 years ago

K-12
Philadelphia

In Philly, an academic approach to school repairs

The majority of the Allen M. Stearne School in Frankford, built in 1966, looks every bit it's age.

8 years ago

Cheyney University (Emily Cohen for WHYY)

Cheyney University defending its accreditation, gets conditional loan forgiveness

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania faces a deadline next week to prove why it should keep its accreditation. Without it, the nation& ...

8 years ago

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 Bucks County groups will meet Thursday night to discuss racist graffiti found at Herbert Hoover Elementary School in Langhorne. (<a href=Photo via Google Maps) " title="screen-shot-2017-08-22-at-2-56" width="1" height="1"/>

Community plans response after racist graffiti found on Bucks County school

Late Friday, a group of parents discovered racist graffiti scrawled across the marquee of an elementary school in Bucks County. Up ...

8 years ago

 Matthew Jansen (second from the left) officially resigned as Spring Grove Area School District director. (Emily Previti/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Controversial school director quits board in south-central Pennsylvania

Spring Grove Area School District Director Matt Jansen has officially resigned more than a year after protests first erupted over his pub ...

8 years ago

 Phillip DeLuca, principal at Samuel Gompers school, is shown talking to a potential nonprofit partner at the School District of Philadelphia's annual Partnership Fair. (Avi Wolfman-Arent)

Welcome to the Philly school principal version of speed dating

Each year dozens of nonprofits and public school principals gather for a ritual that looks kind of like a well-lit version of speed datin ...

8 years ago

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 An artist's rendering of the new Camden High School
Speak Easy
Architecture & Design
Higher Education
New Jersey

A new beginning for Camden High students

The following is in response to April Saul’s “ ...

8 years ago

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Delaware
K-12
Social Justice

Wilmington student uses science to empower her peers

The new school year is fast approaching and a local student is determined to get her peers excited about heading back to the classroom. ...

8 years ago

 (Big Stock image)
K-12
New Jersey
Social Justice

Special education advocate to look at anti-bullying efforts in N.J. schools

An advocate for special education children is conducting an investigation into schools’ compliance with New Jersey’s anti-bul ...

8 years ago

 In this file photo, students get help from their parents as they move into their dorm rooms on the first floor of Virginia Tech's West Ambler-Johnson dormitory in Blacksburg, Va., Aug. 15, 2007. (Christina O'Connor/AP Photo, file)
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Criticisms of American college life split on party lines, Gallup poll shows

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. o ...

8 years ago

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Children read in front of Red Clay Consolidated School District Backdrop. (bigstockphoto.com)
Delaware
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

Red Clay forms equity panel to address racial disparities

Red Clay Consolidated School District has created a committee to review and change “practices related to racial equity.” ...

8 years ago

 Bonnie Kenney (left) and Cindy Gregory have been placed on leave from their coaching positions with the University of Delaware volleyball team. (photo courtesy University of Delaware)
Delaware
Higher Education
LGBTQ

Ex-UD coaches claim age, sexual orientation led to firings

Two former volleyball coaches are suing the University of Delaware, claiming they were fired based on their age, sexual orientation and m ...

8 years ago

Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

Delaware preschoolers have fun learning about safety

For 33 years, kids in New Castle County have learned things like how to dial 911 and stop, drop and roll through a beloved program called ...

8 years ago

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