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Education

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,

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 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.

9 years ago

Listen 0:00
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a dinner hosted by the Washington Policy Center, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Bellevue, Wash.
Speak Easy
K-12
Pennsylvania

Let’s take another look at the track record of charter schools in Pennsylvania

With continuing pressure from the Trump administration for vouchers and school choice, we urge people to look at the facts and strengthen traditional public schools for all.

9 years ago

Cecilia Zalkind (left) and former New Jersey Chief Justice Deborah Poritz call for changes in the state's educational funding practice. (Phil Gregory/WHYY)
Higher Education
Income Inequality
New Jersey

Sharper focus on education, more equitable funding sought in N.J.

New Jersey must quickly provide a high-quality public education for all children, warned a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the state's public policy decisions.

9 years ago

Students dressed in chef's whites listen during an assembly.
Philadelphia

New lottery system for Philly trade school admissions stokes debate

Philly's career and technical high schools will no longer be able to pick their students. Will a lottery increase access or torpedo student achievement?

9 years ago

Listen 0:00
Professor Renu Tripathi of Delaware State University's Optical Science Center for Applied Research (OSCAR) has been awarded a $728,000 NASA grant to develop a laser-based remote magnetometer. (Delaware State University)
Delaware
Higher Education
Space

Delaware State University optics expert gets $728,000 NASA grant

A Delaware State University professor has been awarded a $728,000 grant from NASA to develop new technology to measure the earth's magnetic field.

9 years ago

Holly Glen School in Monroe Township is one of two mold-damaged schools in Monroe Township, New Jersey, that will remain closed. Students will be relocated.
New Jersey
Public Health

After mold inspections, four of six South Jersey district schools reopen

Classes are resuming at four of the six schools closed in Monroe Township in Gloucester County because of concerns over mold.

9 years ago

Zachary Baughman (left) and Steven T. Swain were charged with spray painting graffiti with profane, racist slurs on two Cape Henlopen High school buses and other vehicles in the Lewes area. (Delaware State Police)
Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

2 men charged for racist graffiti on Cape Henlopen school buses, other vehicles

Two downstate men have been charged with spray painting racist graffiti on two Cape Henlopen High School buses and other vehicles and locations in southern Delaware.

9 years ago

Two candidates, both seated at table, with microphone; Guadagno in blue suit (left) Murphy in black (right)
New Jersey
Taxes

How N.J. school district consolidation would look under a Murphy or Guadagno administration

As a co-sponsor of the gubernatorial debate held on Oct 10, 2017, NJ Spotlight won the chance to ask one question of candidates Phil Murp ...

9 years ago

Two students walk towards the camera in an otherwise empty school hallway, blue lockers, yellow walls
First
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Mass exodus of students is costing Delaware school district and taxpayers

Nearly 9,000 Christina district students don't attend district schools. That's 38 percent of students- far more than any other school district in Delaware.

9 years ago

Listen 0:00
New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, who previously supported a
Business
New Jersey

South Jersey business, educational collaborative on job training may expand

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney says the program "should be replicated everywhere, but sometimes, you have to push people to do it. And we’re going to do that."

9 years ago

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