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This week: an explainer on Pa. gun laws and the efforts to expand them, the move to reform standardized testing in N.J, and Voicemail Poems.

An exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania traces the ecological roots of the blockchain industry.

"Science is increasingly part of our education, work, and lives in a changing economy.”

A Philly teacher reportedly has cancer caused by asbestos. But should we blame the school where the person taught? It’s hard to know.

This week: an update on the closure of Hahnemann Hospital, Camden County School District superintendent Katrina McCombs, and monarch migration.

The government said there would be no homework for students in grades one and two.

Robert Morris School in North Philadelphia has made notable academic progress. But, like the school district, it still has a long way to go.

Hite says steady progress and stability is the recipe for Philly schools. But is that type of change powerful enough for the long-struggling system?

Sleep experts say teens should start school later. New Jersey is seeking high schools to test it in real life.

A construction hiccup will push the open date back two days for students at Benjamin Franklin High School and Science Leadership Academy.

A summer at the Hank Gathers Rec Center will tell you everything about North Philadelphia that the headlines leave out.

Because of a suit seeking to desegregate New Jersey schools, pollsters asked residents about school population diversity. Most said status quo is “fine.”

The Christina district consolidated five schools into three under a Carney administration plan. But Bayard School wasn’t quite ready for classes to start.

Whether Tamaqua, Pa. teachers will be secretly armed depends on competing interpretation of the law and an ugly school board election in the near future.

Beefed-up surveillance tactics, armed guards, and even arming teachers and administrators are all ideas that have been put on the table in recent years.