Kevin McCorry
Keystone Crossroads ReporterKevin McCorry reports predominantly on education for the Keystone Crossroads project.
Before his current gig, he was born in a Fishtown hospital that no longer exists.
Somewhere in the middle he loaded trucks in San Francisco, hustled in the reality television racket in NYC, and taught writing courses as an adjunct at Arcadia University.
He's most interested in experimenting with narrative storytelling as a means of illuminating complex social issues.
He believes William Faulkner when he says, to paraphrase, that the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself can alone make good writing.
He also believes David Foster Wallace when he says that "in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance."
In his free time, he hikes the Wissahickon and plays in a band.
He resides in Northwest Philadelphia with his wife and son, the best baby on earth.
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Updated: 5:52 p.m.A long-awaited grand jury investigation into clergy sexual abuse in Pennsylvania was released Tuesday in an interim, redacted form —… -
A long-awaited grand jury investigation into clergy sexual abuse details decades of misconduct and cover-up in six of the state's eight Roman Catholic dioceses. -
They contorted their faces in a howl. With eyes bulging, mouths twisted, veins popping, the Titusville High School senior class, cheerleaders screeching… -
The ongoing budget impasse in Harrisburg has been especially frustrating to Pennsylvania’s state-related universities, which have been counting on a… -
What a difference a two hour drive can make.Students in Erie, Pa. attend a public school district that’s teetering on the brink of collapse. Staffing has… -
The schools in Erie, Pa., have had money trouble for a while. To give his students a better shot, the superintendent wants to send all his high schoolers to the more wealthy, whiter suburban schools. -
In the waning days of the school year, a group of students at Strong Vincent High School in the city of Erie sat around a large wooden table in the… -
Urban school districts in Pennsylvania face a particularly cruel logic.They serve the poorest, most needy students, yet, when it comes to state funding… -
The dust has settled on the 2016-17 Pennsylvania budget, and, as usual, debates over education funding and policy dominated much of the negotiations.Last… -
A survey of Pennsylvania superintendents and school business officials offers a bleak portrait of the state of education in the commonwealth.With mandated…
