Education

The Department of Education’s zeal to eliminate diversity efforts on campus has now veered into a small-print threat that could shatter independence — and financial viability — for local colleges. A longtime university president on what we can do about it

A former City Council and School Reform Commission member weighs in on what a $300 million budget deficit says about School District leadership

A deputy superintendent pushes back on a Citizen story that called the District’s Facilities Master Plan a sign of “managed decline”

In all the talk over closing and fixing Philly schools, there is no mention of building new ones that might serve the community better into the future. Can we look to New York City and Boston for solutions we should steal?

The president of a free market think tank urges Pennsylvania to opt in to help students — both public and private — with school costs

The Palumbo civics teacher is shaping the next generation of changemakers into the kinds of active citizens we need

Not according to students in a recent poll. A longtime university president reflects on how the new data explodes the political narrative

A Philadelphia kindergarten teacher on how families — and entirely communities — would benefit if Harrisburg expanded the highly successful early childhood education program

African American history has been disappeared from Independence National Historical Park. Not so at the Museum of the American Revolution, with thanks to one “time traveler”

The fallout from the District’s extensive plan to transform Philly’s schools will be personal. But the responsibility for these repercussions should be shared, says the head of one independent school