Education

Foreign language has been a staple of high school education for years, but in Delaware, more than 1,000 Delaware elementary students spend half their day learning in Chinese.

The School District of Philadelphia wants to know how you get your kids up and out in the morning.

Titusville’s story is echoed across many towns in Pennsylvania, where a solid middle-class workforce was once sustained by no more than a high school degree.

Seven suicides among teens in Mercer County, New Jersey, have the county’s school superintendents calling for action.

A new analysis found wealthy individuals and high-profit businesses in Pennsylvania and nine other states may make money when they donate to private school scholarships.

In 1793, the brand new United States of America needed a standard measuring system because the states were using a hodgepodge of systems.

The U.S. House GOP is moving forward with a highly partisan proposal that would revamp federal student loan programs. Republican U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick opposes the plan.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro Rivera officially approved the demise of Philadelphia School Reform Commission, return of the school district to city control.

Fewer than half of the 102 historically black colleges and universities have comprehensive smoke-free or tobacco-free policies.

It's inevitable. Each year, teachers dip into their own pockets to buy things like notebooks, tissues and pencils for their students.

After a long campaign, Penn's graduate students will soon vote on whether to form a union. But the vote will include more graduate students than organizers wanted.

These new reports — heavy with charts and computations — will likely inform arguments made for and against property tax abolition.

Eight management companies seeking to open nine new charter schools in Philadelphia made their initial pitches on Monday to a hearing officer for the School Reform Commission.

More than 200 Delaware State University men and women are headed into the workforce. But before leaving the campus, they received their degrees along with one more pep talk.

Eclectic doesn’t begin to describe Kensington High School’s stand at Philadelphia’s annual CTE Holiday County Fair.