Education

Since opening seven years ago Las Americas ASPIRA has become a magnet for parents who wants their children to speak Spanish and English.

Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission heard a presentation on a road map for disbanding itself.

In the past 10 years, the increase in the number of Delaware students taking and scoring well in AP courses far outpaces the rise in high school enrollment.

“Buck,” a gritty coming-of-age tale about one young man’s evolution from thug to scholar, was published in 2013 and praised by critics for its honesty and poetic language.

With continuing pressure from the Trump administration for vouchers and school choice, we urge people to look at the facts and strengthen traditional public schools for all.

New Jersey must quickly provide a high-quality public education for all children, warned a nonprofit foundation that works to improve the state's public policy decisions.

Philly's career and technical high schools will no longer be able to pick their students. Will a lottery increase access or torpedo student achievement?

A Delaware State University professor has been awarded a $728,000 grant from NASA to develop new technology to measure the earth's magnetic field.

Classes are resuming at four of the six schools closed in Monroe Township in Gloucester County because of concerns over mold.

Two downstate men have been charged with spray painting racist graffiti on two Cape Henlopen High School buses and other vehicles and locations in southern Delaware.

As a co-sponsor of the gubernatorial debate held on Oct 10, 2017, NJ Spotlight won the chance to ask one question of candidates Phil Murp ...

Nearly 9,000 Christina district students don't attend district schools. That's 38 percent of students- far more than any other school district in Delaware.

New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney says the program "should be replicated everywhere, but sometimes, you have to push people to do it. And we’re going to do that."

After being dormant for a decade a Planetarium returns to a school, to rave reviews.

After mold was found in one elementary school, others have been closed for air-quality testing in the Gloucester County district.