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National education poll finds Americans wanting more job and career skills training in school
What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce?
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National education poll finds Americans wanting more job and career skills training in school
What’s the point of public school? To foster academic and critical thinking skills? To prepare students for the workforce?
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6 years ago
Pa. school leaders anxious, still stinging from 2015 as 2017 state budget talks again linger
Nearly two months after the state’s budget deadline, lawmakers still haven’t reached a consensus on how to pay for the spendi
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Part Four: While Pa. debates merits of Pre-K, Ontario goes all-in
Part four of our Ontario series
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Don’t call it the Badlands: The story of Savannah Zayas
It’s early February, and Savannah Zayas is just four months away from proving the world wrong.
When she became pregnant in middl
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Pa. urges parents to hurry up, have kids vaccinated for school
If you’re a Pennsylvania public school parent hemming and hawing over when to bring your child in for a vaccination shot, the commo
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Part Five: As its neediest schools struggle, what can Pa. learn from Ontario’s success?
Part Five of our Ontario series
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Part Three: A system of support, how Ontario sets its teachers up to succeed
Part Three of our Ontario series
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Part Two: Ontario celebrates diversity, but still works to close achievement gaps
Part two of our Ontario series
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Part One: How Ontario’s vision of equity for schools contrasts starkly with Pennsylvania’s
Part One of our Ontario series
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Part Three: How one Berlin school integrated by segregating
Part Three of our Berlin series
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Part Two: The rise and fall of Berlin’s plan to integrate schools
Part Two of our Berlin series
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Part One: Even with progressive education funding, ‘fairness’ eludes Berlin schools
Part One of our Berlin series
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Effort to block Boyertown school district’s transgender policy fails
Just in time for the first day of school, a federal judge denied a conservative
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In Philly, an academic approach to school repairs
The majority of the Allen M. Stearne School in Frankford, built in 1966, looks every bit it's age.
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