Education
18 Awesome Philly-Area High School Programs for Your Awesome Kid
School today is about much more than the three R’s. Modern students get to study everything from app development to underwater robotics to slam poetry. […]
The Top Public High Schools in the Philadelphia Region, Ranked for 2024
Some four years since the onset of of the COVID pandemic, Philadelphia-area schools remain busy addressing the learning loss that followed from lockdowns and virtual […]
Mayor Parker Clears Up Some Things About Year-Round School in Philadelphia
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Point/Counterpoint: Educators and Students Weigh in on ChatGPT
University-based instructors make the case for AI’s potential to level the educational playing field. Meanwhile, one Temple journalist argues that generative AI could defeat the […]
No, Really: Year-Round School Is Coming to Philadelphia
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Some of America’s Best Public Schools Are Right Here
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Philadelphia to Actually Start Sweeping Its Streets Today
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NAACP Tells Philly School to End Ban on “Big Afros”
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3 Simple Ideas to Prepare Philly Kids For the Future
We spend a lot of time talking about poverty in Philadelphia, as we should. For decades we’ve held the unfortunate title of being the poorest […]
We Need More Black Teachers. Here’s How to Make That Happen
When I was a kid, I didn’t plan on becoming a teacher. In fact, teaching wasn’t considered an option. My plan was to become an […]
A Camden Educator on Why His Students Crave the Truth
Like many educators, I spent a portion of my summer break teaching students. In July, I was working with high-schoolers on crafting their personal statements […]
How Do We Teach History in America Today?
On a Tuesday in late June, we gathered six distinguished local educators (meet the panel) in our offices in the Curtis building, just off Independence […]
What a German Taught Me About His Country and the Holocaust
Back when I was in college, a good friend started dating a German guy. He was from a small town in Bavaria and owned lederhosen […]
Education 2022: See No Evil. Hear No Evil. Teach No Evil?
When I reached out to Philadelphia journalism legend Linn Washington Jr. to ask if he would moderate a discussion about how — in the continuing […]
The Fight Over How to Teach America’s Past Is Itself a Test
Benjamin Franklin didn’t coin the phrase that nothing can be certain but death and taxes. Other writers said it first. But out of anyone, he, […]