Topic: Teachers

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.

Donate food or money for uniforms, share your expertise, provide reading help and more ways you can support schools in Philadelphia

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

The public will never know, a labor policy expert with a free-market Pennsylvania think tank argues, unless the District opens its records

We can start, the CEO of an education reform group argues, with an Abundance Agenda

As the leader of the city’s largest and most diverse neighborhood high school, Crowder has led his community through a string of catastrophic events — and to academic excellence

The storyteller sings, dances, puppets and laughs with books to help children get excited about — and learn — reading