Education
New Jersey will soon have a shortage of college students
New Jersey will experience about a 20 percent decline in the number of high school graduates through 2030, according to a recent report, ...
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Penn State making changes to Greek system after pledge death
Penn State is making changes to its Greek system, including taking control of the previously self-governing fraternities and sororities, ...
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Penn grad students move toward unionization
Graduate student working at the University of Pennsylvania moved toward forming a union Tuesday as they filed an election petition with t ...
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Wistar Institute starts apprenticeship program for biomedical lab techs
Splitting baby hamster kidney cells. Performing quality control checks on RNA. It’s all in a day’s work for a biomedic ...
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Is this early education center the future of Philly pre-K?
At first glance, it’s impossible to tell a big experiment is happening inside the preschool program at FitzPatrick Elementary Schoo ...
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The HoagieNation Festival rocked Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia on Sunday. The music and food fest included headliners Daryl Hall & ...
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With prison as backdrop, advocates stump for more Pa. pre-K
As lawmakers in Harrisburg jockey over Pennsylvania’s budget, a group of legislators and law enforcement officials gathered Friday ...
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Philly approves school budget and a new charter school
It may prove to be the calm before the storm, but for the second year running Philadelphia’s public school system passed a budget t ...
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Drexel suspends university frat for 5 years over alcohol violations
Drexel University officials have suspended a school fraternity for five years for serving alcohol without university approval. The ...
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Notre Dame commencement protesters chose the wrong time and place
When I heard that a group of disgruntled Notre Dame students marched out of the graduation ceremonies in less-than-silent protest this we ...
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Wilmington students create glittering tile mural for elementary school lobby
A yearlong arts project at Stubbs Elementary School on Wilmington’s East Side is creating a lasting and glittering ceramic til ...
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Courageous Conversations: sharing stories about race and pledging to practice more
Is there a better way people can talk about race in America? Nearly 175 people showed up to take up that challenge at an event held Monda ...
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Students to test their mettle in Philly’s kinetic sculpture parade [photos]
On a recent Thursday morning, the Workshop School in West Philadelphia was a symphony of drills and saws and welding torches. Amid ...
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Advocates push Philly schools to move faster on immigration training
Since Donald Trump’s election, the School District of Philadelphia has been training staff to better deal with the anxieties facing ...
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Charter, district officials make progress on major reforms, but can’t reach deal
Though the School District of Philadelphia and its charter community often bicker publicly, behind closed doors there have been substanti ...
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