Cash-strapped Philly school district considers selling prized art collection...
Before Marilyn Krupnick was a science teacher at Northeast Philadelphia’s Wilson Middle School, she was a student there. When she stepped through the building’s doors for the first time in 1956 with...
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The latest Fairleigh Dickinson PublicMind poll finds New Jersey residents are divided on whether getting a college degree is worth the investment. Poll director Krista Jenkins said 45 percent of New...
View ArticleFinding beauty inside rules, the sonnet makes a small comeback — NewsWorks
Next year, 2014, marks the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Among the myriad events to mark the occasion is a sonnet-writing contest by the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater. The...
View ArticleDelaware kindergartners learn Chinese and Spanish — NewsWorks
Delaware officials are expanding the state’s language immersion initiative. On Tuesday, Gov. Jack Markell joined Ramon Gil-Casares, Spanish ambassador to the United States, to announce the addition of...
View ArticleTop science stories of the week: Lab safety snafus, feathered dinosaurs and...
In this week’s science recap, The Scientist’s Kerry Grens joins us to talk about a new dinosaur species identified in China, genetic pacemaker testing in pigs and the latest on hazardous biomaterial...
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