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The Lawrenceville School teacher Leah Domb helps students discuss a lecture on race and biology by Penn professor Sarah Tishkoff. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Science

What is race? It isn’t skin color, as some young people are learning

It’s a tough question: Why do we look different? As one high school’s syllabus puts it, race is “both a biological myth and a social reality.”

7 years ago

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Kat Engleman presents to members of the Youth United for Change alumni chapter on North Front Street on June 21, 2019. (Photo by Mohammad Alkhalaf)
Community
Kensington Voice

Youth United for Change seeks to increase voter engagement with VOTA! project

The VOTA! project seeks to increase voter turnout for people of color so they can have their voices accounted for in political decisions directly impacting their communities.

7 years ago

Wyoming Valley West High School in Plymouth, Pa. Officials with the school district are not responding to several offers to settle debt students accrued from not paying for cafeteria meals.
NPR
Education

Offers pour in to cover Pa. students’ meal debt, but school officials not interested

At least five donors have stepped forward willing to satisfy the $22,000 in debt accrued by dozens of students whose parents did not give them money to pay for the meals.

7 years ago

(New Jersey Schools Development Authority)
Education
NJ Spotlight

N.J. fires 30 at Schools Development Authority

Murphy administration also releases three reports into personnel controversies at the SDA under its former CEO Lizette Delgado Polanco

7 years ago

Children board buses in the center city of an unknown location to go to outlying schools on Dec. 10, 1971. Busing children as a means of achieving school integration grew into one of 1971’s major domestic stories. (AP Photo)
The Why
Community

Did busing work in New Castle County schools?

Did New Castle County's busing program ultimately achieve racial integration and help close the achievement gap for black students there?

Air Date: July 23, 2019

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is pictured in this Jan. 15, 2019 file photo (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Education
NJ Spotlight

Murphy scraps Christie’s salary cap for N.J. superintendents

Nine years after former Gov. Chris Christie limited how much New Jersey superintendents could be paid, his successor ends the restriction.

7 years ago

The courthouse in Luzerne County, Pa., where officials this month sent letters to parents who had unpaid cafeteria debt, threatening to take parents to Dependency Court if the obligations were not settled.
NPR
Education

Don’t have your lunch money? 1 Pa. school district threatens foster care

Wyoming Valley West School District, one of the poorest districts in the state as measured by per-pupil spending, is located in a former coal mining community in NE Pa.

7 years ago

The standardized tests scores of chronically absent students will no longer count against teachers, schools, and the state. (John Locher/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Will this tweak in Pa. law send student test scores soaring?

The standardized tests scores of chronically absent students will no longer count against teachers, schools, and the state.

7 years ago

Jovan Weaver, 37, was charged with vehicular homicide in April 2019. Here, he's pictured at his childhood playground in 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Schooled
Education

Special update: The story Jovan Weaver didn’t tell

In this special episode of Schooled we unpack the details of the Jovan Weaver vehicular homicide case and its larger implications.

Air Date: July 17, 2019

Listen 15:28
Nineteen states have adopted
NPR
Education

States are ratcheting up reading expectations for 3rd-graders

Almost 20 states have passed laws requiring third-graders who aren't proficient in reading to repeat the grade. The policy started in Florida 17 years ago.

7 years ago

Students pass though a stairwell at Overbrook High School. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Education

Philly charter leader says district offered ‘backdoor’ deal for neighborhood high school

A prominent charter leader claims Philly school officials tried to give her control of a neighborhood high school. Those officials say it’s not true.

7 years ago

Close-up of a standardized test.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. fiscal watchdog calls for end of Keystone exams

Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale released a report calling for the state to get rid of its high school standardized test and replace it with the SAT or ACT.

7 years ago

Educators fire off rounds during a concealed carry class for teachers Sunday, June 10, 2018, at  Adventure Tactical Training in Farmer City, Illinois. The class was designed to help teachers feel less vulnerable in the wake of a number of recent school shootings across the country.  (David Proeber, The Pantagraph via AP)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Some Pa. superintendents have been quietly armed in schools — and parents probably don’t know it

Amid ongoing debate about guns in Pa. schools, some school administrators have been quietly armed for nearly a year, a Keystone Crossroads investigation has found.

7 years ago

Buses arrive at South Boston High School, Jan. 8, 1975. Police were on hand to provide protection as black students arrived. (AP Photo)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The legacy of busing

We discuss Vice President Joe Biden's record on busing and desegregation in schools and whether the policy has achieved racial integration in schools across the country.

Air Date: July 3, 2019 10:00 am

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Gov. Wolf signed the  budget on Friday June 28, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Seven big takeaways for education in the new Pa. budget

A flurry of hotly-debated education proposals have been decided in this year’s Pennsylvania budget. Here are the latest updates on six major issues.

7 years ago

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