Education

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has made headlines recently for blasting the field of candidates running to take his job. Specif ...

Parents in some suburban Philadelphia school districts are opting out of standardized tests in previously unseen numbers. One test, the P ...

Summer is approaching, which means sandy beaches, bathing suits and … textbooks. The Jersey Shore is set to be more than a vacation ...

File this story under “wonky but important.” In an era where standardized test scores often determine a school’s ...

In two years, Pennsylvania students will have to pass three standardized tests — the Keystone Exams — to graduate high school ...

They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but the Community College of Philadelphia recently pledged to make its tuition free ...

Twenty-two percent of the country’s 1,100 community colleges serve mostly racial and ethnic minorities. Community colleges e ...

The Philadelphia School District wants $100 million from the city to help address its financi ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter spoke to students at Abington Senior High School about something now bedeviling the Pentagon: try ...

The Philadelphia School Reform Commission is here to stay, at least for a little while longer. Gov. Tom Wolf campaigned on the ide ...

Unemployment numbers are rising, but millennials are still havi ...

More than a half a billion dollars is being held up for the four “state-related” schools, Penn State ...

One Wednesday morning at the Paley Early Learning Center in Northeast Philadelphia, 4-year-old Quincy was learning how to write the lette ...

The Democratic candidates for Philadelphia Mayor debated perhaps the most important issue in this years race Tuesday night: public educat ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf intends to steer the state away from school accountability measures that he says place too great an emphasis o ...