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Education

 Kelly Stacey leads prospective kindergarten parents on a tour of Fox Chase school. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)

Selling Fox Chase: One kindergarten open house in the era of school choice

Robert Caroselli isn’t a button-up type of guy. The principal at Fox Chase elementary, a K-5 school in Northeast Philadelphi ...

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 Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney sits down to breakfast with fourth graders at Henry A. Brown Elementary School in Kensington. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philadelphia’s school district finds creative ways to ensure kids eat breakfast

At 6:30 a.m. every school day, a crew consisting of two cafeteria workers and one community volunteer begin the process of cooking and so ...

9 years ago

 Friends' Central School in Wynnewood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Friends’ Central can’t keep hiding behind Quaker language

Three weeks have now passed since Friends’ Central administration placed two faculty on leave for the offense of chaperoning studen ...

9 years ago

 Students attend class at Belmont Charter School in West Philadelphia. A new analysis shows the cost to Philadelphia school district of losing students to charter schools is nearly $2,000 less per capita than previously reported. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)

Students leaving Philly schools for charters less costly than once thought

A long-awaited study of the true costs of charter students in Philadelphia says that much of the “stranded costs” associated ...

9 years ago

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 Philadelphia Federation of Teachers President Jerry Jordan (left) speaks to a gathering outside Henry A. Brown Elementary School in Kensington. The group used International Women's Day to highlight the fact that 75 percent of PFT members are women and they have been working without a contract for more than three years. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Philadelphia teachers take part in ‘A Day Without a Woman’ protests

The Philadelphia teachers union used Wednesday’s international women’s strike to highlight the importance women play in schoo ...

9 years ago

 A student who asked that her name be withheld took a picture of the doors of a suspended teacher, where students have been posting notes in protest.

Suspended Quaker school teachers claim discrimination in cancelled-speaker scandal

Two teachers suspended from a Wynnewood Quaker school amid student protests over a canceled speaker have filed a discrimination ...

9 years ago

 Klint Kanopka is a physics teacher at The Academy at Palumbo. He’s not missed a day of work for 2500 days. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Philly physics teacher with perfect attendance plans for his first day off in seven years

It’s been more than 2,500 days since Philly teacher Klint Kanopka missed work.  It’s a unlikely streak from an unlikely ...

9 years ago

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 Indian River School District won voter approval to raise property taxes 19 percent. (photo courtesy IRSD)
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On second try, Indian River tax increase passes

Delaware’s Indian River School District voters overwhelmingly approved a 19 percent property tax increase Thursday, just three mont ...

9 years ago

 Daisy Romero, center, holding the megaphone, is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who will graduate from the University of Pennsylvania next year. (Photo courtesy of Daisy Romero)

‘Sanctuary campuses’ Swarthmore, Penn amplify protections of students at risk of deportation

As the Trump administration has refrained from stripping Obama-era protections for young people in the country illegally, Swarthmore Coll ...

9 years ago

 A view of the Library of Congress from the top of the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2016. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)

Leaders of black colleges set to meet with GOP lawmakers, White House officials

During his campaign, President Trump frequently asked the African-American community, “What do you have to lose by trying something ...

9 years ago

An Uber for Explorers: La Salle strikes partnership with ride-hailing service

A subway ride to the Olney Transportation Center in North Philadelphia costs $2.25. For another two bucks, you can now take a 5-minute Ub ...

9 years ago

 President Donald Trump listens as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks during a meeting with parents and teachers, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

‘Radio Times’ examines higher education policy in the age of Trump

Education policy in America could be transformed under President Trump and newly minted Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, including the ...

9 years ago

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Higher ed in the age of Trump

Guests: Sara Goldrick-Rab, Aaron Schenk, Aminata Sy  Betsy DeVos, the recently minted Secretary ...

Air Date: February 22, 2017

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We will fight to protect public education

Despite a huge public outpouring of concern and protests consisting of tens of thousands of phone calls that lit up the Capitol switchboa ...

9 years ago

The Statue of Liberty overlooks New York Harbor

Myth of civics education as leftist indoctrination undermines our democracy

A number of recent statements and actions — by the Trump administration and beyond — point towards the undermining of our civic ideal ...

9 years ago

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