Voice: Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Ideas We Should Steal

Go Small!

Large one-size-fits-all high schools are failing.  In New York City, an experiment in small schools seems to be working.

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Citizens of the Week

Darren & Phyllis Sudman

After their 3-month-old’s heart stopped during his daily nap, his parents founded a nonprofit that is changing the way we treat cardiac arrest among the young.

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Wonder Woman To The Principal’s Office

Thanks to help from the Philadelphia Schools Partnership, the School District is counting on a dynamo leader to turn around a struggling elementary school. But does the District have enough dynamos to fix all its broken schools?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Citizen of the Week

Rose Brandau McGee

Serving vets and saving vets in Mayfair's Camouflage Rhino Thrift Store

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

The Paper Chase

How a small University City company—one of the nation’s fastest-growing—is on a mission to “make Philadelphia awesome.”

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

The Mystery of the Missing Textbooks

Public schools have a fraction of the books they need to teach kids how to pass standardized tests. One parent has built an app to help fix that. So why isn’t the District listening?  

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Finding Diamonds

An innovative program at Rutgers University is turning underprivileged inner-city kids into college scholars

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Citizen of the Week

Danielle Mancinelli

A teacher takes it upon herself to fill a school's empty library

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy