Education

With programs like Bankwork$, the 50-year-old Opportunities Industrialization Center—the brainchild of Rev. Leon Sullivan—plots a comeback

In Puerto Rico, an experiment in alternative education is getting results in a district with struggling schools and high poverty. Could it work here?

A Mastery high school principal says the civil rights leader may have begun with integration—but that’s not where he landed

Impact100 Philadelphia harnesses the spending power of women to change the world around them

A Philly native’s “Banksgiving” program gives area kids something they desperately need to raise themselves out of poverty: Financial literacy training

A Penn student’s program for African immigrant children explores what it means to have a home in two worlds—and what language to say it in

The Philly startup helps school districts teach teachers better, so they can teach students better

With freedom to say what they feel, daughters tell it like it is

WURD’s afternoon host calls on the school district to heed the call for better anti-bullying practices—before it’s too late

A 13-year-old hunger-fighting group with 10,000 student volunteers turns it attention to a crisis in its midst: campus hunger