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Lifestyle

Rowing has been a path toward leadership, overcoming fear

My morning path to school is the same every day. The streets are lined with trash, broken glass, and aged needles as a reminder of the chaos from the night before.

9 years ago

 Tiernan Alexander of the Creative Vision Factory works with a student at Stubbs on the tile mosaic mural that will be installed in the lobby this summer. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Wilmington students create glittering tile mural for elementary school lobby

A yearlong arts project at Stubbs Elementary School on Wilmington’s East Side is creating a lasting and glittering ceramic til ...

9 years ago

 Tadpoles (<a href='https://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-123682742/stock-photo-wood-frog-tadpoles-%28rana-sylvatica%29-a-group-of-tadpoles-%28or-pollywogs%29-is-called-an-army-%0D%0A%2A%2A-note%3A-visible-grain-at-100%25%2C-best-at-smaller-sizes'>Steve Byland</a>/Big Stock Photo)
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Education

Kids thrive when they swim among peers and mentors with common interests

Learning heroes can come from a wide range of settings in young people’s lives. One unexpectedly appeared in my son’s life when he wa ...

9 years ago

 Christina School District, the largest in Delaware, had 1.1 percent and 1.2 percent turnout, respectively, for its two contested school board races Tuesday. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Tuesday’s school board voter turnout in Delaware only 1.5 percent

Turnout in Delaware’s school board vote continued to be abysmal Tuesday, with just 1.5 percent of registered voters showing up to c ...

9 years ago

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Education

The negative effects of implicit bias in schools

Last week at Colgate University in central New York, reports of a black male carrying a gun — which in reality was a Colgate student ca ...

9 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment

Nature and the environment come together in an art lesson for Wilmington students [video]

A simple project like using colored pencils to draw their favorite animals could turn into a lifelong lesson for 5th graders in Mrs. Morris' art class.

9 years ago

 Makayla Grant gets busy on her first day of preschool at SPIN-Parkwood on Jan. 4, 2017. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
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Education

Soda tax benefits all, even its biggest critic

The Philadelphia Beverage Tax benefits Philadelphians. To say otherwise ignores the big picture. Criticism of the tax merely focuses on i ...

9 years ago

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Education

Kensington school program has kids rocking toward a musical future

Over the last four years, siblings Alexus Arthur, 16, and Eugene Arthur, 13, have made meteoric strides in the ...

9 years ago

 Artist Jim Nuttle captured Mimi Ito's Learning Innovation presentation.
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Education

It takes a ‘learning hero’ to break out of the education pipeline

Who is your learning hero? Who would you say has been an inspirational person in your life who has unlocked new ideas and pushed you to learn?

9 years ago

 Anita Pisano's string students practice at Concord High School. Many will be performing with students from Concord and Mount Pleasant at Carnegie Hall in April. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Delaware students band together to play Carnegie Hall

In the beginning, nearly a decade ago, Brandywine School District orchestra director Anita Pisano migrated from building to building, hel ...

9 years ago

 The Delaware state Board of Education meets Thursday. State education leaders presented 2016 gradation and dropout rates, both of which represented improvements over the previous year. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Education

Del. high school dropout rate at three-decade low

Dropout rates for Delaware high school students fell to their lowest level in more than three decades in 2016 while graduation rates incr ...

9 years ago

 R2-D2 joins New York City students at an Hour of Code pep rally hosted by Code.org, Microsoft and Google at Nasdaq MarketSite in 2015. Students were inspired to try coding with Minecraft and Star Wars themed tutorials. (Donald Traill/ AP Images for Microsoft)
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Education

Creating the next generation of innovators by understanding how young people use media

Helping kids be creative is the best way to make them innovators. Minecraft, social media, and connected learning tools can build social skills, and drive civic engagement.

9 years ago

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Community

Sugary-drink tax a small price to pay for improvements to Philadelphia parks and rec

I grew up in the ’70s when gang activity in Philly was at its peak. Getting to and from home and school was a daily obstacle course ...

9 years ago

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Education

We will fight to protect public education

Despite a huge public outpouring of concern and protests consisting of tens of thousands of phone calls that lit up the Capitol switchboa ...

9 years ago

Kensington and Methacton students pose for a photo during an exchange visit to Methacton High School
Education

How the other half learns: a field trip from Kensington to the suburbs

For one day, a group of Philadelphia teenagers experienced life at a wealthy, suburban high school. This is what they saw. You can ...

9 years ago

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