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Education

Diversity, equity and inclusion: it's an education some parents want to be left out of their child's curriculum. It's become a hot-button issue for the Downingtown Area School District. (6ABC)
Black Lives Matter
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice
6ABC

Petition calls for end to diversity, equity & inclusion in Downingtown schools

When someone forwarded Brandyn Campbell a petition calling for the end of diversity programs in her child's school district, she felt hurt and disappointed.

5 years ago

Fairfax County Public School buses are lined up at a maintenance facility
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Kids
Pennsylvania

Pa. private schools saw enrollment dip during pandemic, despite in-person options

Area private schools swung open their doors last school year. But that didn’t draw droves of families, data shows.

5 years ago

Bryce Dershem holds up his graduation cap, which features a fist on top of a trans pride flag
K-12
LGBTQ
New Jersey

N.J. principal’s attempt to censor queer valedictorian exposes gaps in how educators treat LGBTQ students

The incident has prompted questions about the legality, or at least the wisdom, of an administrator stopping a student speech celebrating diversity in 2021.

5 years ago

University of Delaware's campus in Newark
Delaware
Higher Education
History
Race & Ethnicity
Social Justice

University of Delaware to explore slavery legacy at the Newark campus

UD joins a consortium studying how the work of people held in slavery, or those who held people as slaves, influenced the history of the schools.

5 years ago

Sierra Leone's minister of education and chief innovation officer David Moinina Sengeh is a man of many talents. He's using mobile phone technology to improve daily life, he invented a way to make a prosthetic limb with a computer-assisted technique and he's a singer and rapper and a clothing designer, too. (Jason Beaubien/NPR)
NPR
International

This education minister is a renaissance man (and he’s got a music video to prove it)

David Moinina Sengeh is not your typical education minister. The 34-year-old with a Ph.D. from MIT oversees the public schools in Sierra Leone.

5 years ago

Penn State linebacker Brandon Smith (12) tackles Rutgers quarterback Johnny Langan (21) during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Dec. 5, 2020, in Piscataway, N.J. (Adam Hunger / AP Photo)
Higher Education
Sports
WITF

College athletic departments gear up for student endorsement deals

Some of the state’s colleges and universities are lining up programs to help student athletes make money from their name, image or likeness.

5 years ago

Families stand in line at Philadelphia School District headquarters to pick up Chromebooks ahead of the start of the school year in September 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Employment
K-12
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly schools finalize new bell schedule running counter to doctors; principals feel blindsided

Most high schools will start at 7:30 a.m., and middle schools and elementary schools will start at either 8:15 a.m. or 9 a.m — the opposite of what’s recommended.

5 years ago

Before Philadelphia’s City Hall, plaintiffs and their attorneys celebrate an earlier court ruling allowing their fair funding case to proceed. (Darryl Murphy / The Notebook)
K-12
Pennsylvania
Race & Ethnicity
Chalkbeat Philadelphia

In landmark school funding case, Pennsylvania lawmakers try to block evidence of racial disparities

The Pa. GOP wants to block evidence that Pennsylvania’s Black and Hispanic students fare worse on traditional measures of academic achievement than their white peers.

5 years ago

Physically distanced, and with protective partitions, students work on an art project during class
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

New Pa. law allows students to repeat a grade, but the deadline to decide is one week away

All Pa. K-12 students now have the option to repeat a grade, but the deadline to apply is right around the corner and many families are unaware of the opportunity.

5 years ago

A Temple University building is pictured in Philadelphia
Higher Education
Income Inequality
Philadelphia

Temple University tuition for in-state students rises for the first time in two years

Come fall, in-state tuition will be $16,488 a year; out-of-state, $29,712. The university says it offset costs with budget cuts to keep tuition low.

5 years ago

Desks are arranged in a classroom at Panther Valley Elementary School
Delaware
K-12

Southern Delaware students relish return to the classroom for summer enrichment

A program that helps students in southern Delaware catch up on their studies over the summer months is back to meeting in person after going fully remote last year.

5 years ago

A headshot of Antonio Tillis
Higher Education
New Jersey

Rutgers-Camden welcomes award-winning scholar as chancellor

Antonio Tillis comes to Rutgers-Camden after years with the University of Houston system. He said he’s excited to continue working with first-generation college students.

5 years ago

Delaware State University's acquisition of Wesley College in Dover includes 21 campus buildings like DuPont Hall, seen here. (Del. State University)
Delaware
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity

Delaware State becomes first HBCU to acquire another school with takeover of Wesley College

The acquisition is a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity for Delaware’s HBCU, says DSU president Tony Allen.

5 years ago

chester high school
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

Chester Upland School District avoids unprecedented charter takeover — for now

The move by receiver Juan Baughn means the district won’t, for the time being at least, become the first in Pa. almost completely under charter control.

5 years ago

Murrell Dobbins High School principal Ms. Shervon Thompson. (6ABC)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Philadelphia

‘A good day in North Philadelphia’: Dobbins High celebrates first alumni principal

Shervon Thompson, Dobbins class of 1996, will serve as principal after serving her entire career there as a teacher and assistant principal.

5 years ago

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