Topic: Teachers

What other schools can learn from the way South Philly’s Sharswood K-8 has raised reading scores in the first year of the city’s new literacy curriculum

More than half of adult Philadelphians struggle to read. A year-old literacy coalition is calling for a statewide commitment to a teaching method that has worked in Mississippi and elsewhere

The Palumbo civics teacher is shaping the next generation of changemakers into the kinds of active citizens we need

The annual convening of Black male educators late last year was a reminder of what can happen when Black men show up for the future.

The legendary photographer and chef checks in with a Delco kid-turned-Philly teacher about launching The City Root and teaching kids to speak truth

Two veteran educators on a common sense way to fill teacher vacancies in the Philadelphia School District

Breakthrough of Greater Philadelphia is helping to fill classrooms with programs that serve two customers: future teachers and middle schoolers

Hurricane Katrina pushed New Orleans to completely upend how it educates its children. Twenty years later its success is off the charts. Finally, folks are talking about it.

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Only 17 percent of Philadelphia fourth graders read at grade level. Let’s tell Harrisburg to pass bipartisan bills that invest in our kids and our future, says a PA literacy leader