Education

The turnaround at Blaine Elementary turns out to be more about momentum than test scores.

A mother worries that the faculty’s dedication and hard work just won’t be enough to keep her medically fragile son safe. Tha ...

In 2014, a group of passionate faculty members took a big gamble to improve Blaine Elementary. Would it work?

Philadelphia School District students will arrive for the first day of classes Tuesday morning. Educators are cautiously optimisti ...

Kevin McCorry documents a year he spent tracking the progress of the chronically low-performing James G. Blaine Elementary School in Strawberry Mansion section of North Philly

Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education’s board of governors has approved new contracts with four of its labor unions ...

What kind of leadership is required to meet the challenges we face locally and globally? What if we looked at leadership in a new way th ...

More than 1 million adults in Pennsylvania started college but never earned their degree. About 380,000 of them are living in the Greater ...

Auditors have found that Cheyney University of Pennsylvania didn’t document the eligibility of students before giving them nearly $ ...

Scholar Academies operates one of the highest-performing charter schools in Philadelphia, Young Scholars Charter School. So when t ...

UPDATED Morrisville School Board president Damon Miller likens his predicament to being uncool at a middle-school ...

UPDATED 11:30 a.m. Delaware County Judge Chad Kenney Tuesday rejected the key piece of Gov. Wolf’s plan to ...

Two principals fired by the Philadelphia School District in the wake of the statewide standardized test cheating scandal have won favorab ...

Delaware County Court of Common Pleas Judge Chad Kenney is hearing arguments on a state-led plan to fix the Chester-Upland School Distric ...

Delaware County Judge Chad Kenney will decide Monday whether to implement a plan put forth by Gov. Tom Wolf, Pennsylvania Education Secre ...