Education

To figure out why some of his elementary school students struggle with reading, Daun Kauffman sometimes has learned as much in home visit ...

For Martin Luther King Day, we offer this rebroadcast: According to a ...

After five months of organizing, teachers and staff at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The ...

The size of the pie matters, not just how you slice it. So said a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Philadelphia Re ...

Should there be more charter schools in Philadelphia? That’s the question currently being weighed by the School Reform Commi ...

A federal judge has declined to throw out a Pennsylvania law requiring a $60 million fine Penn State has been paying over the Jerry Sandu ...

As the Corbett administration draws near its final days,  perhaps the departure of Pa. Budget Secretary Charles Zogby&nbs ...

The pieces are starting to fall into place for one of the volatile parts of Pennsylvania government for the incoming administration. ...

Five schools in Philadelphia made the cut for a “high progress” designation, based on increases in achievement in math and re ...

A Chester County judge has scrapped a money-saving attempt by the Chester-Upland School District to merge the administration of its distr ...

A new report finds that Pennsylvania ranks 41st nationally, lagging behind New Jersey, Delaware, 37 other states and the District of Colu ...

Another Philadelphia educator has been charged in the widespread standardized-test cheating scandal that’s been the subject of cont ...

In the wake of two charter schools closing last month in the middle of the school year, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission Monday ...

The gap between what wealthy and poor school districts spend on education in Pennsylvania has doubled since Gov. Tom Corbett took office, ...

Philadelphia School Reform Commission Chairman Bill Green says the district’s next contract with the teachers union will include a ...