Education

The problem with public education is not the children but the adults. It is paramount we deconstruct underpinnings behind partisan gridlock.

It's been an explosive start for community schools, Mayor Jim Kenney's signature K-12 education initiative.

In the world of higher education, one plus one equals one. Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University are merging. He ...

Designer, engineer, and educator Leah Buechley has spent her career encouraging kids, particularly girls, to experiment creatively with t ...

Environmental educational centers along the Delaware River watershed are joining forces to raise awareness about the 13,500 square mile s ...

Every spring, City Council members pepper School District of Philadelphia officials with questions during the district’s annual bud ...

When the School District of Philadelphia has a major problem, poor old Jonah Thompson is surely fidgeting in his grave. And the district ...

Terrance Cosby has never flown in a plane before. He’s always lived in Camden, and he’s never traveled farther than North Jer ...

Calling a feared backlash by voters an “inconvenient consequence,” Gov. John Carney urged a small contingent of upstate schoo ...

Dorina Morrow began her career as a public school music teacher in the fall of 1975. She still remembers what she wore her first day: sti ...

The School Reform Commission approved the new contract with the Philadelphia Federation of teachers Tuesday amid warnings that a signific ...

A small but determined group of educators, parents and advocates descended Tuesday to the steps of Legislative Hall protest Gov. John Car ...

Philadelphia teachers ratified a new labor deal Monday night, all but assuring city educators of their first valid contract since the old ...

Powerful and surprisingly prevalent horrors are blocking access to education and ravaging children’s lives. Sadly, they remai ...

Philly teachers may finally be getting a raise. After a half-decade stalemate, the School District of Philadelphia and the Philade ...