Education
Helen Gym: The Agitator
Helen Gym advances, and Mayor Nutter inches warily back. She waves a thick stack of papers at him, each sheath a complaint lodged by […]
Twitter Fight! About that Epic Tom Ferrick-Helen Gym Dust-Up
I feel your pain, Tom Ferrick. I once got caught up in the emotions of the moment when Philebrity slammed a post by Greg Meckstroth on […]
Philly’s Science Leadership Academy Dumps Macs for Chromebooks
Education Week takes notice that Philly’s acclaimed Science Leadership Academy has dumped its Mac laptops for new Chromebooks that cost about a third as much. […]
Penn Study: Glorious Utopian Future of Free Elite Online Education is a Bit of a Crock
The New York Times reports on a Penn study showing that MOOCs—”massive” online courses provided cheaply or freely by elite universities—aren’t really democratizing education the […]
ThinkFest Video: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter, film director, producer, and Philadelphia native M. Night Shyamalan takes on the education problems in Philadelphia after publishing his first book, I Got Schooled: […]
Heidi Hamels Is More Than Just Mrs. Cole Hamels
Heidi Hamels will hate the way this story begins. But this is where her story must begin, because without it, the farm girl never becomes […]
PA: Probably Better Than You Thought at Math and Reading
The federal government released its report on educational attainment among public school students, and huzzah, it turns out Pennsylvania kids are above-average.
Former Philly Superintendent Could Lose Job in Connecticut Election
Paul Vallas, who was the superintendent of Philly schools once upon a time, has proven a lightning rod of controversy in his latest stop, Bridgeport, […]
Supreme Court May Have the Final Word on “Boobies”
The “I Heart Boobies” controversy may be going to the Supreme Court—NBC 10 reports the Easton Area School District board voted Tuesday night to appeal an […]
Oops: There’s No Ban On Halloween at Inglewood Elementary School
Earlier this week, the principal at Inglewood Elementary School in Montgomery County sent a letter home to parents telling them: There won’t be any Halloween […]
Q&A: MacArthur Genius Award Winner Angela Duckworth
On Wednesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced the 24 recipients of its “genius” grant, a $625,000 no-strings-attached award given to “individuals who show exceptional creativity in […]
Hundreds Protest Slur-Spewing Coatesville Administrators
The fallout hasn’t stopped from the two Coatesville school administrators who used racial and sexual slurs in texts with each other. Hundreds of people showed […]
Penn Researcher, Camden Doctor Get Famed “Genius Grants”
A pair of locals have received the prestigious “Genius Grants” announced today: — Jeffrey Brenner, 44, Camden, N.J. The physician founded a health care delivery […]
Fergie to Stage “The Last Waltz” at Trocadero to Save Philly Schools
On November 26, 1976, the musical group The Band played a concert in San Francisco known as “The Last Waltz”, as it was their farewell […]
Coatesville School Officials Love the “N Word” So Much, They Should Marry It
Turns out that Coatesville Superintendent Richard Como and director of athletics and activities Jim Donato were ousted from their positions because of racist text messages they […]