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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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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

a young man prepares for his graduation
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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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 The State Capitol building in Trenton, N.J. (Alan Tu/WHYY)

New Jersey could require schools to provide textbooks

New Jersey could require that every student be provided with the right textbook. A bill that ensure that cleared the New Jersey Senate on ...

9 years ago

 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 ...

9 years ago

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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

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