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from left to right: Jeannine Payne, Jodan Floyd, Richard Gordon
Radio Times
Education

Philadelphia school principals roundtable

Guests: Richard Gordon, Jeannine Payne, Jodan Floyd What makes an excellent principal? Today we’re going to hos ...

Air Date: July 26, 2018

Listen 48:57
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will deliver his State of the State address on Tuesday. (Julio Cortez/AP)
Education

Murphy signs measure overhauling New Jersey’s school-funding law

Proponents say it will help give the state's 577 districts the funding they need to provide better education for all students.

7 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf speaks at Grade Level Reading Week in Philadelphia. The group is focused on grade level reading by third grade, an important predictor of success in school.
Education

Philly flaunts early literacy approach for national audience

At a national conference, city officials attempted to sell Philadelphia as a being on the vanguard of early childhood education and, in particular, early literacy. So, is it?

7 years ago

Neumann-Goretti players reach for the championship trophy at the end of a PIAA high school Class AA Girls championship basketball game against Seton LaSalle in Hershey, Pa. on Friday, March 20, 2015. Nuemann-Goretti won 79 - 34.
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. school districts decry what they see as growing disparity in state sports competitions

The districts claim sporting events have become less competitive since charter and private schools joined traditional public schools in state playoffs.

7 years ago

Students walk past Samuel Paley Library on the Temple University campus, where a student died of a drug overdose on Dec. 1.
Education

Tuition hikes set for most Pennsylvania public colleges

Pennsylvania’s public universities have set their budgets and tuition rates for the coming school year. These include the 14 ...

7 years ago

Pa. Governor Tom Wolf greets a 6th grade literacy class at Penn Treaty school. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Pa. bets on residency model to boost teacher prep programs

With Pennsylvania licensing fewer and fewer teachers, the state recently announced it will send $2 million in federal aid to eight colleg ...

7 years ago

Ankur Arya founded Leading Youth Though Empowerment (LYTE). The nonprofit's aim is succeeding in helping high-achieving, low-income middle school students get into elite high schools and assists them until they get accepted into college. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Grassroots program helps low-income, high-achieving Delaware students blossom

Leading Youth Through Empowerment helps high-achieving, low-income students gets into elite high schools and programs.

8 years ago

Josiah Taft, 4, played at the water table in his public preschool classroom at P.S. 3 in Brooklyn in 2016. New York is one of a handful of big American cities that offer universal preschool. Photo: Jamie Martines for The Hechinger Report
Education
The Hechinger Report

Who should pay for preschool for the middle class?

As the price of private preschool soars and states spend more than ever on public programs for the poor, will the middle class be left behind?

8 years ago

Gov. John Carney signs a measure aimed at reducing the number of Delaware school suspensions. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
Education

Gov. Carney signs legislation aiming to reduce Delaware school suspensions

The Department of Education will collect and publish data about the suspension process in an effort to cut back on unnecessary disciplinary measures.

8 years ago

Packages containing a nasal inhalant
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

N.J. may require that students learn to administer OD-reversing drug

The proposed legislation would require that naloxone instruction be paired with curriculum that educates students about the risks of opioid addiction.

8 years ago

Listen 1:47
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy  (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Education

Murphy phasing out PARCC tests in N.J.

Governor stopped short of nixing the test entirely, but suggested that's what he wants to do

8 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney addresses the city's new local Board of Education at their first meeting since the dissolution of the state-appointed School Reform Commission.
Education

At first meeting, new Philly school board turns to old hand for leadership

By a unanimous vote, the nine board members chose former School Reform Commission chairwoman Joyce Wilkerson to as the first board president in this new era.

8 years ago

Left: Downtown Pittsburgh (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Right: Philadelphia skyline (SeanPavonePhoto/Bigstock)
Keystone Crossroads
Education

Philadelphia and Pittsburgh: Five charts and two families at the center of the school choice debate

Since the state enacted a charter school law 20 years ago, starkly different trends have played out in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

8 years ago

Listen 7:37
Class of 2018 high school graduates Tamir Harper, Anthony Rivera, and Shania Bennett (left to right).
Radio Times
Education

The exceptional class of 2018

Guests: Tamir Harper, Shania Bennett, Anthony Rivera  TAMIR HARP ...

Air Date: July 6, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
(LA Johnson/NPR)
NPR
Education

Raising kids who want to read — even during the summer

Books are everywhere in your house, and yet ... they're not being consumed. Because it's summer, and kids have so many other things they'd rather do.

8 years ago

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