Education
Powerful Pro-School-Voucher Group May Have Violated State Law [Updated]
Students First PAC, a pro-school-voucher group backed by three managers of Bala Cynwyd-based Susquehanna International Group, may have violated state election law. Susquehanna’s Jeffrey Yass, […]
Penn Admits Fewer Women Than Most Colleges
More women attend college than men. (Part of why we must now confront the “end of men” phenomenon.) At Penn (and a few other Ivies) […]
West Chester School Uses Yoga Balls Instead of Character-Building Chairs
AP reports on Robby Giuliano’s fifth-grade class at Westtown-Thornbury Elementary School in West Chester, where she’s replaced uncomfortable wooden and plastic chairs with … yoga balls: […]
Will the Feds Get Involved in Philly School Closures?
Hot on the heels of Monday’s announcement of a lawsuit challenging the proposed closing of Philadelphia schools—closings brought about because of massive budget deficits—comes news […]
Bucknell Says It Inflated SAT Scores, May Destroy College Rankings Systems
Turns out those smart kids at Bucknell University … aren’t so smart: The president of Bucknell University says an internal investigation has revealed that school […]
Upper Dublin High School Put on Lockdown after Umbrella Was Mistaken for Gun
Understandably, tensions are high at schools across the country today. So much so at Upper Dublin High that the police were called and the school […]
Pennsylvania’s Fourth Graders Are the Only Group to Increase National Vocabulary Test Scores
Turns out Pennsylvania actually does have something that’s better than in the rest of the country: our fourth graders. That news comes thanks to the […]
Future Disappointing Test Results Kick Off Next Week
Starting on Monday, 11th-grade students across Pennsylvania will get their first official crack at the Keystone Exams, the state’s new series of annual standardized tests. […]
Penn Wants Face Time With Every Single Applicant
In a move certain to cause a scandal in a few years when “inadvertently recorded” interviews are “accidentally leaked” onto the internet, Penn’s Office of […]
Billboard Wars II: Someone Thinks of the Children
The long-running dispute over advertising on the Electric Factory building at 7th and Callowhill — thought finally put to rest after its most tireless proponent, […]
School Reform Commission Imposes Cap on Charter School Growth
Saying it needs flexibility and predictability in a time of dire financial distress, the SRC last night voted unanimously to override state laws governing the […]
Philly Claims Highest Proportion of Charter Students
As the city’s public education system continues to crumble, a new report indicates that Philly’s charter schools are going strong. Roughly 23 percent of the […]
School Reform Commission Floats $300 Million Bond to Keep the Lights On
The fun times continue at the year-old Philadelphia School Reform Commission. With just weeks to go before the release of a report calling for the […]
Local Winning H.S. Basketball Team Could Get Shut Down
Rondae Jefferson was still playing Biddy Ball when he first started going to the parties on 9th Street. He’d hear the music, watch the girls […]
Mitt Romney Wants Your Tax Dollars to Pay for Useless College Educations
If you’re going to choose to be a one-issue voter when you cast your ballot tomorrow, here’s a really good one. You should vote to […]