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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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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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In this file photo, Superintendent William Hite meets with a student outside of a high school, Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Education

Heading into 8th year, Philly schools chief Hite wants to ‘think about reform differently’

Hite says steady progress and stability is the recipe for Philly schools. But is that type of change powerful enough for the long-struggling system?

6 years ago

School buses are seen in a file photo.
Community

N.J. seeking schools for delayed start time pilot program

Sleep experts say teens should start school later. New Jersey is seeking high schools to test it in real life.

6 years ago

This file photo shows the Benjamin Franklin High School located on North Broad Street. The building will now house both Benjamin Franklin High School and the Science Leadership Academy. The first day of school is delayed due to lingering construction (Nathaniel Hamilton For WHYY, file)
Education

First day of school delayed at Ben Franklin, SLA due to lingering construction

A construction hiccup will push the open date back two days for students at Benjamin Franklin High School and Science Leadership Academy.

6 years ago

(Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
Education

Hope, love and basketball: Summer at North Philly’s Hank Gathers Rec Center

A summer at the Hank Gathers Rec Center will tell you everything about North Philadelphia that the headlines leave out.

Air Date: August 28, 2019

Listen 45:44
Students doing the exam in classroom
Education

N.J. residents tell pollster schools are diverse. Data says otherwise

Because of a suit seeking to desegregate New Jersey schools, pollsters asked residents about school population diversity. Most said status quo is “fine.”

6 years ago

Chairs, desks and other equipment cluttered the gymnasium at Bayard on Aug. 16, four days after school opened. (Courtesy of Sherry Dorsey Walker)
Education

Expanded Wilmington school in ‘disarray’ for opening bell, lawmaker says

The Christina district consolidated five schools into three under a Carney administration plan. But Bayard School wasn’t quite ready for classes to start.

6 years ago

Listen 1:48
Tamaqua School board member Nicholas Boyle (left) and School Board President Larry Wittig (center) are joined by Joe Egan, a representative of The Buckeye Firearm Foundation at a meeting in November 2018. (Matt Smith for Keystone Crossroads)
The Why
Education

Pa. school district still pushing to arm teachers

Whether Tamaqua, Pa. teachers will be secretly armed depends on competing interpretation of the law and an ugly school board election in the near future.

Air Date: August 26, 2019

Listen 14:26
Students walk to Tamaqua Area High School in Tamaqua, Pa., Friday, Jan. 4, 2019. Parents are going to court to block the Pennsylvania school district from allowing teachers to carry guns in school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
Education

School shootings spark drastic safety proposals

Beefed-up surveillance tactics, armed guards, and even arming teachers and administrators are all ideas that have been put on the table in recent years.

Air Date: August 21, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
(Kimberly Paynter/Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
Education

Don’t eat the marshmallow: Students from a ‘no excuses’ charter grow up to tell the tale

"If you actually said, 'We’re gonna hold you accountable to setting up your students for life.' Then how does that change the work of that school?”

Air Date: August 21, 2019

Listen 43:06
Community College of Philadelphia (WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Video: Pa. ranks last in region for community college affordability, makes it 'impossible' for poorest students

Pennsylvania did not increase funding for the operating budgets of community colleges this year. Advocates say the pressure on low-income students has grown unsustainable.

6 years ago

Doug Cox (left) teaches mathematics and engineering at El Centro. He also leads the Dark Knights chess club. (Kimberly Paynter/Keystone Crossroads)
Radio Times
Education

Last chance high

For students in Kensington who have dropped out of high school, El Centro de Estudiantes offers a second chance at graduation which, for some, means a chance at a better life.

Air Date: August 14, 2019

Listen 49:01
Stephen Schaeffer leads a
Schooled
Education

Last Chance High: Beautiful band of misfits fight to graduate — part two

What do we really mean when we say students are ready to graduate high school? Is there a baseline that we’re really willing to enforce?

Air Date: August 14, 2019

Listen 24:32
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks in the Capitol rotunda in June 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

After years of gridlock, Wolf plans executive action on charter school reform

Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said Tuesday he would use his executive power to hold charters to “the same ethical and transparency standards of public schools.”

6 years ago

Listen 1:49
School buses are seen in a file photo.
Politics & Policy

After complaints, Pa. senators return to drawing board on part of school safety law

A law to expand schools' security options in Pennsylvania now has some school law enforcement officers miffed.

7 years ago

Friends' Central School in Wynnewood. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Education
Billy Penn

Philly teachers’ racial discrimination claim against Quaker school can go to trial, court rules

Friends’ Central fired them after a 2017 controversy over a Palestinian speaker.

7 years ago

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