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Luke Bilger, executive director of educational technology for the School District of Philadelphia, joined Life and Tech with TechLifeSteph to discuss the district’s back-to-school technology policies. Bilger said every K-12 student receives a Chromebook, while generative AI chatbots are limited to high school students using district-approved Google Gemini accounts to protect student data. Ryan Mulholland, senior fellow for international economic policy at the Center for American Progress, joined Dr. James […]

Perhaps Washington's Reflecting Pool should stay exactly as it is. Its mess reflects ours. By Dr. James Peterson The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become an unironic reflection of the current administration. The Reflecting Pool is supposed to center the architecture of American democracy – the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. These days, we all see an administration reflected back at itself: murky, expensive, badly managed, reflexively punitive and seemingly […]

Civil rights leader Muhammad Kenyatta with his grandson, future State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta (Credit: Malcolm Kenyatta) Muhammad Kenyatta’s fight for justice stretched from challenging discrimination in the U.S. Air Force to organizing in Mississippi, where FBI surveillance and intimidation forced his family to flee, and later activism in Philadelphia. His grandson, State Sen. Malcolm Kenyatta, reflects on discovering that legacy only after his father’s death and the remarkable ways their […]