Education

The growing academic achievement gap that separates rich and poor students is being exacerbated by unequal access to tutoring, coaching, ...

Gov. Tom Wolf intends to nominate Estelle Richman, a career public servant and former Secretary of Pennsylvania’s Department of Pub ...

The freshman class at Frankford High School in Northeast Philadelphia faces long odds. But on Friday they might have gotten at ...

I graduated from a West Philadelphia high school that’s a charter school. Now in college, I also work at a charter school that’s focu ...

Details revealed on Philadelphia Federation of Teachers contract offers and counter-offers. Departing chair Marjorie Neff says ...

The front-page story of the Philadelphia school district’s bitter fight with its teachers union has been couched in raucous ...

Eleven Philadelphia public schools are in line for a major shake up, the school district announced Monday. The selected schools ...

The financial picture for Philly’s school system isn’t getting any worse — even if it is already relatively bleak. ...

After finding elevated lead levels in nearly 50 school drinking outlets, Philadelphia is expanding its water-testing program. ...

When Tammy Thomas, principal at Eleanor Emlen School, first saw her school’s standardized test scores for 2016, she didnR ...

Faculty members from Pennsylvania’s state university system are rallying over the continuing lack of a contract agreement. T ...

Marjorie Neff and Feather Houstoun both announced their intention to resign from the five-member School Reform Commission Wednesday, spee ...

Standardized test scores for Philadelphia’s public school students remained largely flat in 2016, though high school student ...

Back in the mid-1970s — as the legend goes — a group of artists and educators was trying to dream up a name for a new, kid ...

The Penn Alexander School in West Philadelphia has been called many things since it opened in 2001: success story, ground brea ...