Education

During his campaign, President Trump frequently asked the African-American community, “What do you have to lose by trying something ...

A subway ride to the Olney Transportation Center in North Philadelphia costs $2.25. For another two bucks, you can now take a 5-minute Ub ...

Education policy in America could be transformed under President Trump and newly minted Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, including the ...

Guests: Sara Goldrick-Rab, Aaron Schenk, Aminata Sy  Betsy DeVos, the recently minted Secretary ...

Despite a huge public outpouring of concern and protests consisting of tens of thousands of phone calls that lit up the Capitol switchboa ...

A number of recent statements and actions — by the Trump administration and beyond — point towards the undermining of our civic ideal ...

Sa’ed Atshan is a popular professor at Swarthmore College. How pop ...

The School District of Philadelphia Wednesday released its long-awaited plans for 11 low-performing schools designated this year for extr ...

Philadelphia will formally unveil a new initiative to improve the city’s out-of-school-time programs Thursday. Sounds dry, b ...

Two teachers at a Quaker school outside Philadelphia have been suspended over fallout from a Palestinian speaker’s invitation to a ...

Research out of Philadelphia suggests the best medicine for absenteeism might be a postcard sent home with a dose of cold, hard truth. ...

Thousands of I-95 commuters may soon know just how fed up some Philly teachers are with the long contract stalemate between their school ...

A new study-abroad program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, takes students to Ghana, in part, to explore slave castles an ...

Many college students study abroad to learn a language or a different culture. For three years, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pe ...

Five years ago, Catholic education in Philadelphia was on life support. Since then, an independent nonprofit has saved 15 schools in low- ...