Education

The Power of Snapshots
While Covid-19 has forced the closure of many after-school programs, Photography Without Borders continues to empower North Philly youth with cameras, connections—and confidence. And now, the students’ work has gone national.
By Jessica Blatt Press
Guest Commentary: Philadelphia, I Miss Your Face
A local high school teacher’s ode to the so-Philly thing we’ve all missed most this year: community
By Maureen Gallagher Boland
Bill Hite, Reconsidered
Philadelphia’s schools superintendent has taken some hits lately. Does he have what it takes to manage—and tame—a $3.5 billion bureaucracy?
By Larry Platt
Integrity Icon 2020: Meet Richard Gordon IV
The newly-named Principal of the Year thinks the key to turning around Philly schools comes down to human connection. His work at Robeson High School may prove him right.
By Jessica Blatt Press
Integrity Icon 2020: Meet Shaquita A. Smith
As the social studies curriculum specialist for the School District of Philadelphia, Smith helps open worlds, and doors, for more than 200,000 students every year
By Jessica Blatt Press
Integrity Icon 2020: Meet Carlos Aponte
The high school history teacher has met the challenges of illiteracy and disenfranchisement with creativity and passion
By Jessica Blatt Press
Integrity Icon 2020: Meet Thomas Quinn
The Central High School social studies teacher is empowering our city’s youth to exercise their most profound civic right: voting
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Guest Commentary: How To Keep Kids In School
A Boys’ Latin social worker on how boosting attendance in school means changing how we approach the problem
By Kenneth Bourne II