Avi Wolfman-Arent

Stop and frisk. Changing demographics. A fishy police shooting. Inside a 1918 race riot in Grays Ferry and its parallels to the present.

At a national conference, city officials attempted to sell Philadelphia as a being on the vanguard of early childhood education and, in particular, early literacy. So, is it?

A year after finishing in last place, the Phillies enter the All-Star break in first. But they're only drawing 825 more fans per game than last season.

With Pennsylvania licensing fewer and fewer teachers, the state recently announced it will send $2 million in federal aid to eight colleg ...

At her fourth annual Educator Summit, Penn professor and "grit" expert Angela Duckworth brings teachers from all over the globe. WHYY spoke to some about the theory.

By a unanimous vote, the nine board members chose former School Reform Commission chairwoman Joyce Wilkerson to as the first board president in this new era.

Since the state enacted a charter school law 20 years ago, starkly different trends have played out in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

Last week, Pa. Gov. Tom Wolf said he'd support a major school funding shakeup. Now Wolf is hedging his position.

Since 1987, Greg Crance has run a hot dog stand in the middle of the Delaware River. It's a beautiful office, but a fickle business.

Governor Tom Wolf called for a major change to the way Pennsylvania funds schools Friday, advocating for the state to distribute its larg ...

Conservative groups cheered the decision as a triumph for free speech.

The SRC also left some business on the table, failing to reach agreements with 25 charter schools that say the commission’s terms are too restrictive.