Nine students were taken to area hospitals on Tuesday after they reported feeling dizzy or nauseous. The illnesses have been attributed to a gas leak […]
The math teacher from Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond that ridiculed 16-year-old Samantha Pawlucy for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt to school has […]
There’s something about a presidential election that turns ordinarily sane, mature adults into name-calling adolescents straight out of Mean Girls. So it’s not a surprise […]
Big Bird and Body Language Steer Debate Reaction. The soundbite everybody’s talking about from the first presidential debate came when Mitt Romney mentioned his fondness […]
In the wake of the cheating scandal that rocked the Philadelphia School District, only 33 schools in the city met Pennsylvania’s “Adequate Yearly Progress” standards. […]
On Wednesday evening, more than 100 Philadelphians joined Mayor Nutter and state Senator Anthony Hardy Williams for an advance screening of a major motion picture […]
This week, the War on Teachers continued. Teachers in Chicago, the third-largest school district in the country with 350,000 students, went on strike this week […]
New Philadelphia School District superintendent William Hite inherited a school system that’s broke and broken. If history is any guide, he’ll be run out of […]
It’s no secret at this point that our grandiose nation is grappling with an appropriately sizable obesity epidemic, wrought by the subsidization, shoddy production and […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a finalist for a 2012 Online Journalism Award handed out by the Online News Association. The Inky and education reporter Kristen […]
While Philadelphia politicians, activists and researchers continue asking the same, tired questions about school reform, one bold professor has been asking a much simpler one: […]
Late Wednesday night, the Philadelphia School District and its blue-collar workers’ union struck a tentative deal to avert layoffs. Had a deal not been reached, […]
One of the big problems that has plagued Philadelphia for decades has been its lack of strong and competent leadership. The city is known as […]
The pro-privatization Students First PAC has been a huge player in state politics from the moment it emerged in 2010 flush with cash, much of […]
School Reform Commission Chairman Pedro Ramos went on IQ 106.9 with Larry Mendte on Tuesday to discuss an editorial in the published in the Tuesday […]
