Education

We Need a Smart Charter Compromise

Here’s how we can approve high-quality charters without harming District schools

By Jeremy Nowak
Ideas We Should Steal

Flipped Classroom

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Is This Really What $2.6 Billion Buys?

The Philadelphia School District Budget Should Be Big Enough To Educate Our Kids. Here’s Why It Isn’t

By Larry Platt

The Publics and the Catholics

Why a revolution in Catholic School education is important to the City

By Jeremy Nowak

Schooling Millennials

Will opening a new charter school in—and for—Center City keep millennials from splitting for the suburbs?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

What Do We Mean By Public and Private Today?

In today’s rancorous schools debate, old distinctions no longer apply

By Jeremy Nowak
Ideas We Should Steal

Go Small!

Large one-size-fits-all high schools are failing.  In New York City, an experiment in small schools seems to be working.

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Wonder Woman To The Principal’s Office

Thanks to help from the Philadelphia Schools Partnership, the School District is counting on a dynamo leader to turn around a struggling elementary school. But does the District have enough dynamos to fix all its broken schools?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

The Paper Chase

How a small University City company—one of the nation’s fastest-growing—is on a mission to “make Philadelphia awesome.”

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

The Mystery of the Missing Textbooks

Public schools have a fraction of the books they need to teach kids how to pass standardized tests. One parent has built an app to help fix that. So why isn’t the District listening?  

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy