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After fending off debt collectors for years, Adrienne McNally, 49, was sued by the federal government over $6,200 in student loans she took out decades ago. There is now a lien from the government on her home in Northeast Philadelphia. (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
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Amid 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 ...

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 Patty Cronin (right) leads circle time for new preschoolers at SPIN-Parkwood.(Emma Lee/WHYY, file)

Here’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, ...

9 years ago

students protest Charles Murray at Middlebury College
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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 ...

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 Anita Pisano's string students practice at Concord High School. Many will be performing with students from Concord and Mount Pleasant at Carnegie Hall in April. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
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Delaware 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 ...

9 years ago

 Students accept their diplomas at the 2016 spring commencement at East Stroudsburg University. The school has succeeded in narrowing the graduation gap between black and white students while boosting minority enrollment. (East Stroudsburg University)

At many Pa. colleges, black students are not benefiting amid rising graduation rates

A recent study finds graduation rates at f ...

9 years ago

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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 ...

9 years ago

 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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& ...

9 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. ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

9 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 ...

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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.

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