Education

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- ...

In what was a slow year for applications, Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission approved one new charter and rejected two others ...

Despite surprisingly robust opposition, Betsy DeVos became U.S. secretary of education Tuesday, thanks to a tie-breaking vote from Vice P ...

At her Tuesday confirmation hearing, Estelle Richman, Gov. Tom Wolf’s pick for the School Reform Commission, reiterated her support ...