Reality Check

Kenney’s Community Schools Gap

Following the Mayor’s comments in D.C. last week, WURD’s afternoon host notes that the community schools effort could be a delicious hoagie...once they put the meats in it

By Charles D. Ellison
Guest Commentary

Dena, Emma, Helen, #MeToo & Me

A high school teacher on the hope and inspiration she finds from the “speak-truth-to-power” generation

By Maureen Boland

Vets on a Mission

A veterans nonprofit deploys hundreds of volunteers into local schools with a mission taken from their time in uniform: Service

By Patrick Bilow
The Citizen Recommends

Social Justice Symposium for Teens

The annual Free Library event, started by librarian Erin Hoopes, returns this weekend with an agenda for change

By Patrick Bilow
The Citizen Updates

Math Corps Philly

The summer program helps middle schoolers leap ahead in their math skills through hard work, fun and a dose of compassion

By Emma Kreider
The Citizen Recommends

QUEST

The North Philly-based documentary airing tonight on PBS marks the beginning of a conversation about inner-city trauma, race, class and politics.

By Jamie Bogert

Educating While Black

The co-founder of The Fellowship for Black Male Educators on how—and why—he became a teacher

By Vincent Cobb II

The Power of Coaching

Women’s Way is bringing an innovative Delaware financial literacy model here to give economic tools to the poorest—and potentially most powerful—population in the city: Women

By Jill Harkins
Citizen of the Week

Scott Blunk

The volunteer at W.B. Saul High School’s on-campus farm is taking what was once seen as troublesome and expensive animal waste and transforming it from poo to profit

By Jill Harkins
Ideas We Should Steal

Buying Better Food

The LA-based Center for Good Food Purchasing helps districts and governments lead the way in buying healthy food. Can we get Philly schools on board?

By Jill Harkins