Education
Is social media to blame? Chester County teachers become target of viral attacks
Middle schoolers in Chester County made national headlines for creating TikTok accounts impersonating their teachers. We ask: Are teens getting meaner in the digital age?
Air Date: July 9, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 49:56Gemayel Keyes testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in Washington, D.C.
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Middle schoolers create over 20 fake TikTok accounts impersonating teachers in Chester County
After consulting with law enforcement agencies, the Great Valley School District held an assembly for eighth-grade students to address the responsibility of social media.
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Delaware school district mandates students carry clear backpacks amid enhanced security measures
The move comes after a student in the Seaford School District brought a gun and knife to school.
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Listen 1:05Pennsylvania Senate passes bill encouraging school districts to ban students’ phone use during day
Pennsylvania’s Senate has passed legislation to encourage school districts to effectively ban students’ use of cellphones during the school day.
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Temple names Drexel’s John Fry as 15th president
The university's board of trustees confirmed Fry as president following an extensive national search. Fry has been the president of Drexel University since 2010.
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Listen 1:17School vouchers may make it into Pennsylvania’s budget. What would they really do?
School choice vouchers could be part of the budget being negotiated in Pennsylvania. They’re controversial, and decades of studies show they have mixed results.
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Mayor Parker says 25 Philadelphia schools will pilot ‘extended day, extended year’ program
The voluntary program is designed to give students additional help and tutoring when an extended break results in educational regression.
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Gov. Shapiro, Pa. legislators seek compromise on public education funding
Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court ruled that the state’s public education funding formula was inequitable and unconstitutional, requiring change.
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Seventy-five percent of fourth-graders in the state lack reading proficiency. Research begins next month to deliver findings within three years.
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Listen 1:35The debate about school vouchers, New Jersey Democrat George Norcross indictment
Music superstar Jay-Z has given a celebrity jolt to Pennsylvania's school-voucher debate. Should the government cover private school costs for kids in low-performing schools?
Air Date: June 18, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 45:15When colleges close, students are left scrambling. Some never go back to school
When Philadelphia's University of the Arts abruptly closed, it left 1,300 students clambering to find somewhere to go or something to do.
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The Pass It Forward campaign has drawn ire for its attempts to drum up support for the Republican-backed bill.
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Listen 1:18‘Displaced’ and ‘abandoned’: Former UArts students file class-action lawsuit
Following UArts faculty’s lawsuit last week, students claim the now-closed school committed fraud and breach of contract.
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Here’s what could happen to UArts’ $61 million endowment and its historic campus
UArts is still responsible for ensuring its endowment is spent the way donors intended. Regulators will control the transition of both buildings and the money.
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