Education

This story is about an achievement gap. No, not the achievement gap — a term used to describe how white and wealthy stu ...

Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released a draft of its plan to comply with the new federal education law, the Every ...

When charter schools move into a neighborhood, people often wonder what will happen to the traditional public schools nearby. Will ...

Catherine Lindroth has had a singular mission the last five summers — reducing the huge achievement gap in Delaware between low-income ...

Debate club tends to attract kids who really like arguing. And for the kids who really, really like arguing, there’s Philadelphia ...

Debate club tends to attract kids who really like arguing. And for the kids who really, really like arguing, there’s Philadelphia ...

The Dow Jones is at an all-time high and the U.S. labor market is near full employment, with the jobless rate at 4.4 percent. And yet, ...

With the future of their school at risk, graduates and supporters of the nation’s first black college are trying to rally. And they ...

The nonprofit has helped dozens of students from the Philadelphia region get accepted to top schools, now TeenSHARP is branching out ...

This September, Pennsylvania’s teacher’s union will have a new leader. And she won’t be a former teacher. Dolore ...

The kids crowded into a second-floor classroom at Gilbert Spruance School in Northeast Philadelphia came from every corner of the world: ...

The School District of Philadelphia has systematically failed to investigate or intervene when students bully their disabled peers, accor ...

While advocates call for major changes, some special education parents demand their children stay in specialized private schools. ...

Delaware students made incremental gains and losses this year in both English and math, and mostly lost ground in science, according to r ...

The term “summer slide” may conjure images of water parks or amusement rides. Unfortunately, however, it describes a serious ...