Education

A scientist-in-training helped coordinate a letter-writing campaign to protect federal science funding. Here’s what the Philly-born scientist says is at stake for the town she loves

The 15-year-old nonprofit 12+ helps nearly 5,000 Philly and Camden students a year plan for college, trades or military service after high school — and life beyond

A Temple professor launches the nation’s first “playful learning” spaces in two affordable housing complexes in Philly today, for International Day of Play. Will it make kids smarter and safer?

For the second time in three years, the School District of Philadelphia was defrauded out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. What’s really going on?

A longtime university president urges protest against the House Republican reconciliation bill now before the U.S. Senate votes to approve it

Only 17 percent of Philadelphia fourth graders read at grade level. Let’s tell Harrisburg to pass bipartisan bills that invest in our kids and our future, says a PA literacy leader

A longtime university president calls upon citizens to welcome students from around the world

The public will never know, a labor policy expert with a free-market Pennsylvania think tank argues, unless the District opens its records

We can start, the CEO of an education reform group argues, with an Abundance Agenda

GOP legislators want to investigate wasteful spending in Philadelphia schools. A high school teacher knows just who they should ask