Education
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 ...
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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
Listen 00:49:00A ‘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 ...
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ListenStudy: 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. ...
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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 ...
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ListenNew 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 ...
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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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ListenPhiladelphia’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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ListenPhiladelphia 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ListenOn 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 ...
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‘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 ...
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