Education

The Philadelphia School District boasts about increasing attendance rates. But at Edison High School, some students are swiping in, then cutting class.

No matter how scary, office hours are a huge factor in a student's success. Not only in college, but even after — in the workforce and in life.

A 2018 ballot initiative allowed N.J. to borrow $500 million for schools, with $100 million for lead remediation. No money has gone out, two legislators say.

Ronnie C. Williams is jailed on 19 felony sex charges involving two minor boys. He can stay on the Colonial School Board until his case is resolved.

Lawmakers passed a bill in 2018 that added a student and a teacher to the state board in non-voting roles. The student must be in 11th or 12th grade.

The training provides a glimpse of how Pa. schools could change if armed teachers become a new normal in classrooms.

Pennsylvania has started to modernize its science curriculum, including a focus on climate change.

The School District of Philadelphia says students attending the climate strike on Friday will be marked as absent, unlike in New York.

Amid a larger push by Governor Tom Wolf to reform charter school policy, bipartisan interest has grown to amend the rules and funding methods of cyber charters.

Paul Tough discusses his new book, "The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Break Us," which examines inequities in college admissions system.

After the university sent an alert based on an unverified report of a shooter, students understandably freaked out. Did Villanova jump the gun or follow best practices?

A report from New Jersey Policy Perspective, a progressive think tank, says the state’s teaching workforce does not resemble the state’s student body.

Swarthmore College professor Lee Smithey urges educators around the world to cancel classes for a “global climate strike” on Sept. 20.

Wilma Mishoe, 70, will step down from the historically Black university at the end of the year, according to the university’s website.

Ito reportedly resigned from other boards he sat on, including the James L. Knight Foundation. He was named director of the M.I.T. Media Lab in 2011.