Bucks County School District Prepares Students For The Unthinkable
It's a sad sign of the times, but as the number of school shootings continues to rise, administrators can't look away.
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It's a sad sign of the times, but as the number of school shootings continues to rise, administrators can't look away.
Students of a North Philadelphia Catholic High School got an "NFL Draft" type of experience Friday.
While teachers and activists marched, Philadelphia parents last night took their concerns over the budget crisis to the School Reform Commission.
Targeting the soaring cost of higher education, President Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled a broad new government rating system for colleges that would judge schools on their affordability and perhaps be used to allocate federal financial aid.
Starting September 13th, students in the United States ages 14 and up will be able to sign up for LinkedIn, create a profile, and start connecting with "University Pages."
Colleges routinely get big names or celebrities to make graduation speeches, but the task of welcoming newbies may be in-sourced. For a young woman at La Salle this is her spotlight moment.
Auditor general Eugene DePasquale says Chester Community Charter School, the state's largest "bricks and mortar" charter, must address significant deficiencies.
"I think you can tell from his personal story that this is someone who understands challenge," the governor said as he introduced Paymon Rouhanifard as his selection for superintendent.
Bing, the Microsoft search engine, is looking at secondary schools as the next front in its web-search war against Google.
Plans to bring new life to the just-closed Germantown High School building have taken a detour.
The U.S. Education Department granted Pennsylvania a partial waiver from the No Child Left Behind school evaluation law Tuesday, giving state officials the flexibility to develop alternatives they say will yield more meaningful assessments of schools and students.
Morgan Hall, at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, is part of the university's effort to woo more students into living on campus.
He said he'd rather be useful than rich, but when his museum reopens this weekend, visitors will fiind he was both.
Tuesday was move-in day at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, as several dozen men begin the path to priesthood.
Ted Landis, a CPA in Colmar (Montgomery County), Pa., notes that incidentals can add up at college so it's important for you and your student to know who is going to pay the bills and where that money is coming from,
A couple dozen members of one West Philadelphia community gathered to voice their displeasure with the pending closure of Alexander Wilson Elementary school.
It's a rebirth for the once-dilapidated, muddy youth football field, thanks in part to Eagles' quarterback Michael Vick.
Hendley worked first as a schoolteacher before transitioning into television news.
Penn State may never be able to fully shake off the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal, but news that one victim has settled and other claimants may be soon follow marks a legal milestone after almost a year of negotiations.
If the common wisdom is that boys lag behind girls in writing skills, some are bucking the trend, especially those attending workshops in Philadelphia that foster creative thinking.
The Philadelphia teachers' union is mulling its legal options now that the School Reform Commisson has taken the unprecedented step of overriding the union's contractual seniority protections.
Employees of Digitas Health took a day away from the office to help spruce up Girard Elementary School in time for the start of the school year.
Teachers and parents booed throughout the meeting as the School Reform Commission set aside union seniority rules, and stopped union pay increases based on service time.
Nutter said the city will borrow the money until the funding crisis can be resolved.
Kindergarten classes at Kipp Elementary charter school in North Philadelphia have begun, more than three weeks before district schools begin.
