Education

Local education philanthropist Evie McNiff has spent the last 17 years working to improve education. Now she opens up on the state of Philadelphia giving and the next steps for lasting school reform.

The Fund for the School District had a daunting goal: Establish 1,900 classroom libraries in city schools. How’d they do it a year ahead of schedule?

A former executive coach turns his passion for woodworking into a skills training program that provides former inmates with life-sustaining jobs

Black elementary school students are 2.65 times more likely to be suspended than their white peers. A WURD host asks if that’s any way to discipline our kids

As part of a Drexel series on rethinking learning, the former MIT educational technologist grapples with the inequities her work can bring to education

A Mastery principal and organizer sees progress—and much work to do—in his efforts to recruit effective black male teachers

Parental support for neighborhood schools is what advocates say we need most. But what happens when you get too much of a good thing?

Our Citizen Speaks event brought five city university presidents together for the first time. Here's a recap in a quick 4-minute-plus video.

The civil rights icon who worked on Brown v. Board of Education “led a life you would dream about.” He died last month.

As Saturday night’s raid in Frankford makes plain, marijuana is still illegal in Pennsylvania. Here’s why it shouldn’t be