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President Obama wants to provide quality early education for all low to moderate income 4-year olds. Last week the White House ...

Are addiction treatment centers prepared to provide the care necessary for sustainable sobriety? And how can we successfully track those ...

Guest:  BRUCE FEILER For his new book, ...

How do we measure a child’s success in school or socially? Plenty of attention is given to test scores and IQ. But there’s somethin ...

Guests:  ROBERT EPSTEIN, REVA SETH and BENJAMIN KARNEY The notion of an arranged marriage (by choice) seems odd ...

In the new PBS film “Soul Food Junkies,” Newark, NJ-based filmmaker ...

The Philadelphia School District’s proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about ...

Seven hundred thousand inmates are released from U.S. prisons each year. A new documentary film funded by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in ...

For their newly-published book, Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance, e ...

Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he was ending the military’s ban on women serving in combat positions. “Femal ...

The massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut galvanized the national conversation on gun control, but ...

Novelist JULIE OTSUKA didn’t dream of being a writer. She pursued fine ...

Every New Year millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, eat better and hit the gym.  Sadly, many of us aren’t successful.  But i ...

Forty years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the historic case that made abortion legal in the United States. The ...

On Monday, after four months on the job, Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite, Jr. made public his ...