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 The Delaware state Board of Education meets Thursday. State education leaders presented 2016 gradation and dropout rates, both of which represented improvements over the previous year. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
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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

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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

 From left, former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz; for Penn State President Graham Spanier; and former Penn State director of athletics Tim Curley. (AP file photos)

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

 Juan Zambonini (right) sings with a student at Edison High School during a music therapy class. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

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

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Pa. 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. ...

8 years ago

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Former Penn State President Graham Spanier faces charges that he failed to report suspected child sex abuse in the last remaining criminal case in the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Arguments 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

 Representatives from Drexel and Philadelphia School Partnership celebrate the launch of Dragons Teach Middle Years (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

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 ...

8 years ago

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Delaware

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 ...

9 years ago

 R2-D2 joins New York City students at an Hour of Code pep rally hosted by Code.org, Microsoft and Google at Nasdaq MarketSite in 2015. Students were inspired to try coding with Minecraft and Star Wars themed tutorials. (Donald Traill/ AP Images for Microsoft)
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Creating the next generation of innovators by understanding how young people use media

Helping kids be creative is the best way to make them innovators. Minecraft, social media, and connected learning tools can build social skills, and drive civic engagement.

9 years ago

 Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Despite objections, Philly SRC approves new teacher prep program to boost diversity

Sometimes it’s the smallest contracts that can raise the biggest stink. Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission on Thu ...

9 years ago

Students at Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter School are shown in 2013. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)

On ‘Radio Times’: Encouraging more young black men to attend college

The Philadelphia City Council’s education committee will hold a public hearing next week to analyze what the ci ...

9 years ago

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Radio Times
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Preparing young black men for college

Guests: Jannie Blackwell, David Hardy, Will Hayes The Committee on Education of the City Council of Philadelphia ...

Air Date: March 16, 2017

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 From left to right, William Zhang, Su Ly, Hasan Taloui, and Mohammed Imon of the Carver HS Quizbowl team play against Central HS at the city's Quizbowl championship. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

A ‘David versus Goliath’ showdown creates drama at Philadelphia’s Quizbowl

The story of a high school in North Philadelphia as it tries to topple the city’s trivia Goliath. David versus Goliath. It ...

9 years ago

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 Temple University Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab. (Sara Goldrick-Rab via Wikimedia Commons)

Study: One-third of community college students need better access to nutritional food

A recent study shows that one in three community college students reported that they didn’t have enough access to nutritional food. ...

9 years ago

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Study: Pa. students seem to prefer charter schools dominated by members of their own race

Few topics in education inspire more debate than school choice and school integration. A new study co-authored by Penn State profe ...

9 years ago

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