Education

When the School Reform Commission went against neighborhood desires and closed Fairhill along with 21 other schools in 2013, officials promised to sell the buildings.

Swarthmore’s only fraternities, Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon, say they hope their decision to disband will promote ‘healing.’

Enrollment has been falling at many Pennsylvania colleges and universities for nearly decade, since peak enrollment numbers in 2010.

Kids at Adaire love the 300-pound aquaponics tank — and teachers think all schools should have one.

Fewer than half of K-12 teachers told us that they talk about climate change with their children or students.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf wants to raise teachers' salaries across the board. But is that only a Band-Aid solution to a more complex problem?

Although New Jersey is in better shape than the country as a whole for school debt, paying off construction bonds costs about a quarter of state’s annual debt service.

As students around the globe participate in Earth Day, a new NPR/Ipsos poll finds 55% of teachers don't teach or talk about climate change.

More than 200 people showed up to the latest school board meeting on Monday night as the board passed a “biological sex” policy for bathrooms and locker room use.

The school board put the idea on hold in January pending the outcome of lawsuits from parents and teachers.

The faculty union at Rutgers has avoided a strike, but adjunct professors are still waiting for a contract.

'The minute we vote on this, we open ourselves up to a lawsuit,' one school board member said.

The proposed funding is not tied directly to objective measures of student need, nor to a teacher's cost of living.

"Whenever I find something is going to discourage me, I would just pray, and then believe that everything is going to be all right."

Mastery Charter Schools suspended a student after she had a sexual encounter in a school auditorium. But her guardian now says it was rape, and she’s suing.