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File photo: Lower Merion High School (Image via Benofmerion/Wikimedia Commons)

Main Line district sits for PSSAs with 20x increase in opt-outs

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

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Rutgers begins offering summer courses at the Jersey Shore

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

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David Hardy is chief executive officer of Boys Latin of Philadelphia. The charter high school is in its sixth year of operation. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)

Beyond ‘failing schools’: The difficulty of fairly comparing public schools on uneven playing field

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

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 Graph: Projected impact of Keystone exams on Philadelphia graduation rates. (Rachel Feierman/WHYY)

Philly school district projects 22 percent graduation rate in 2017

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

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 Community College of Philadelphia will be tuition-free for more students starting this fall. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

CCP scholarship to make college free for some Philadelphia students

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

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 Students gather around the roulette table during the casino training program at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)

Penn research highlights vital role of community college in serving minorities

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

10 years ago

 Mayoral candidate Jim Kenney presents his school-funding plan with the help of longtime Philadelphia teacher and librarian Rachelle Nocito at Philadelphia Cathedral Early Learning Center in West Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Kenney touts Philly school-funding plan he says won’t raise taxes

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

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Newly confirmed, U.S. Secretary of Defense, Dr. Ashton Carter, returns to his high school alma mater, Abington Senior High School, to kick off his

U.S. Defense chief visits Abington alma mater on tour to replenish Pentagon ranks

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

10 years ago

 School Reform Commission members Sylvia Simms and Bill Green confer during hearings on charters school applications. Gov. Tom Wolf has said he's liked to dissolve the SRC, but not immediately.(NewsWorks file photo)

Wolf has a vision for ending Philly’s SRC, not a blueprint

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

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Andy MacCracken is executive Director of the National Campus Leadership Council. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Job-readiness sessions help college students gain company insights [UPDATED]

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

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 Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015, Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pennsylvania’s budget impasse is blocking state-related universities from receiving funding

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

10 years ago

 Children at the Paley Early Learning Center in Northeast Philadelphia play with blocks and toy cars. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

Paying for high-quality pre-K cast as investment in Pa. future

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

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Mayoral hopefuls debate education at South Philly elementary school

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

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 Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf looks over a quilt made by Andrew Jackson Elementary School students in this 2014 file photo (Nathaniel Hamilton/for NewsWorks)

Pa. Gov. Wolf says school ratings should be less tied to tests

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

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 Jeff Hornstein, co-chair of the Philadelphia Crosstown Coalition Education Committee and president of the Queen Village Neighbors Association. (Lauren Summers/Philly School News)

Philadelphia ‘friends of’ groups band together to support neighborhood schools

Marketing and fundraising. These are just two things that the newly minted Friends of Neighborhood Public Education  wants to do on ...

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