Education

Empathy is an essential skill to connect with the people and world around you. It is also so much more than even compassion- to be truly ...

Katy Morris, an eighth-grade algebra and geometry teacher at Welsh Valley Middle school in Narberth, is out to revolutionize how teachers ...

Five New Jersey colleges are experimenting with offering students college credits for showing what they have learned from their jobs and ...

The Philadelphia School District laid off 157 special-education classroom assistants and one-to-one aides last week in a move that offici ...

Drug abuse. Violence. Incarceration. Those are the pitfalls that plague far too many young men of color in America, according to t ...

After winning a major victory in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last week, the proposed cigarette tax for Philly schools appea ...

Last week, the Republican-held, tax averse Pennsylvania House of Representatives gave its blessing to Philadelphia’s $2-per-pack ci ...

Very probable, optimistic, off the table, never happening, dead, passed.Such was a week in the life of the Philadelphia cigarette tax. ...

Update: Legislation that would enable Philadelphia to levy a $2-per-pack tax on cigarettes passed the Pennsylvania House of Representativ ...

By unanimous vote, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission passed a budget Monday night that includes a $93 million placeholder for mon ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett says Democratic state lawmakers should pony up votes to pass a public pension overhaul bill if they want Ph ...

Facing a $66 million budget shortfall that threatens to turn schools into “empty shells,” the Philadelphia school district ha ...

A Bucks County school district is now one step closer to passing a policy that would effectively force the high school’s newspaper ...

While funding woes plague the Philadelphia School District, some Catholic schools in Philadelphia’s struggling neighborhoods are ch ...

Has Pennsylvania been coming through on its constitutional requirement to provide all children with a “thorough and efficient” ...