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Christie can’t prevent ‘secondary migration’
Governor Chris Christie today declared that New Jersey will no longer accept Syrian refugees in the wake of Friday night’s attacks ...
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ListenA healthier drive-thru that serves flu shots, not burgers
It’s that time of year when doctors and nurses start pushing the flu shot, and some patients start pushing back. “I’ll get i ...
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ListenAgriculture jobs may be plentiful, but new grads are scarce
Close to 60,000 jobs are set to open up in agriculture, food and natural resource sectors each year for the next five years, according to ...
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ListenDemocratic presidential candidates prepare to get back in the ring
Democrats running for president will square off once again this Saturday night at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. NewsWorks T ...
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ListenFishtown: Art and Industry on Frankford Avenue
Produced by Michael O’Reilly At the corner of Girard Ave and Frankford Ave., if ...
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How Strong is the House that Nutter Built?
Philadelphia’s 99th mayor, Jim Kenney, will be inaugurated into office on Monday, January 4. In advance of that transition, N ...
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ListenHow much homework should your kids be doing?
Ten minutes per grade, per night, says one expert. “Kindergartners should not be having homework,” exclaims Step ...
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ListenHow to encourage kids to find a healthy identity online
Last year, Will Haskell’s high school classmates shut down their school with the power of words. This wasn’t an act of free i ...
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ListenYik Yak and cyberbullying brought this high school to a halt
Bullying is as old as the one-room schoolhouse, but technology has changed the frequency and intensity of teasing. The posterchild for th ...
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ListenGoing beyond pizza and hamburgers with two young Food Network champs
It’s tough to stray from traditional recipes when it comes to Thanksgiving, but if you need some help kicking the tried and true to the ...
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ListenPublic debate muddies the waters in climate change education
The public debate over climate change has worked its way into science classrooms, where scientists say it has no place. The ...
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Listen‘Super lice’ are outliving normal treatments, but don’t panic
Head lice have upped their game — recent research confirms that many of them have become resistant to most of the potions we use to kil ...
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ListenEagles are halfway there. Do they have a prayer?
At midpoint in the season, the 4-4 Eagles have shown flashes of brilliance, but their only consistent feature of the team has been its IN ...
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ListenA new, digital spin on your old school shop class
Goodbye lathes, hello 3D printers. Across the country, a handful of schools are giving their old shop classrooms a major makeover, ...
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ListenLet them sleep: Doctors say to start the school day at a ‘healthy’ time
Teens need about eight and a half to nine and a half hours of sleep every night, but at lots of schools the morning bell rings around 7:2 ...
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![1892_shop_class_at_the_dwight_school_byahfolsom_bostonpubliclibrary This was what shop classes looked like back in 1892 at the Dwight School in Boston. Teaching young people to use tools readied them for a modernizing economy. Today some school administrators are rethinking the shop class and opting to convert them into digital labs to train kids on the tools of the next economy.
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