With Teddy Bears, Phila. Hospital Workers Take Fear Out of Kids' Doctor Visits
The show-and-tell teaches children why doctors and nurses do the things they do during health exams or sick visits.
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The show-and-tell teaches children why doctors and nurses do the things they do during health exams or sick visits.
The group endorses full site selection in the next teachers contract -- that is, letting principals pick teachers, rather than having teachers with seniority choosing the schools where they want to work.
Four adults were charged with conspiracy, obstructing highways, failure to disperse, and disorderly conduct.
The dancers' performance and the sounds of the bucket-drum ensemble, known as "Rumble," were part of an arts awareness program being promoted by the University of the Arts.
President U.S. Grant is welcoming people to the nation's centennial at Memorial Hall in 1876 when he slips on a banana. But since the banana is new to America, he doesn't recognize the fruit, and launches a historical quest to identify it.
Stacey Sauchuk says she doesn't expect it to be much of an issue: a woman in charge both at the co-ed college and all-male academy.
At nearly four stories tall, the mural of Robeson faces west on Chestnut Street near 45th, just across the street from the high school that bears his name.
This was not your normal pep rally, not by a long shot.
Hamlet and Olesia Garcia (at right in photo) are facing felony charges, accused of sending their child to an elementary school in Lower Moreland.
"And now, we need to move on," the governor said.
The private Quaker school in suburban Philadelphia says alumnus Robert Zoellick withdrew Friday after some students criticized his support for the Iraq war and his role in President George W. Bush's administration.
The leadership will meet Thursday to discuss the process for identifying an independent adviser to conduct this review.
It's called Pathfinders, and it's a program to train community mentors who will then pass on information about enrolling in college to people in their communities.
Drexel University has gotten a very good report card for its computer games program.
While the number of tech jobs soars, women are filling them in fewer numbers than they were even in the 1980s.
Jonah Berger's book 'Contagion, Why Things Catch On', is the outgrowth of a course he teaches and research he leads.
University of Pennsylvania's Society of Women Engineer's hosted a workshop called Girls in Engineering and Related Sciences or GEAR'S. It's an effort to excite young women about a future in engineering
School District of Philadelphia spoikeswoman Deirdre Darragh says they simply wanted to give parents a little more time, so the deadline has been extended to Friday, April 19th.
This weekend, a competition is underway among high schools across the country, including some from Philadelphia on how to use math to solve everyday challenges. This year's challenge: using math to address recycling issues.
Mayor Nutter wants to get the schools an extra $60 million, but after two years of property tax hikes, he is clearly hesitant to go in that direction again.
Sheryl Sandberg worked at the World Bank and Google before becoming the chief operating officer at Facebook.
Students of the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts had the opportunity to ask questions of Ta'Rea Campbell, the lead of "Sister Act" who was once a student at CAPA.
These are the first heads to roll in the investigation of 53 Philadelphia schools that has been going on for more than a year.
City Council president Darrell Clarke and others on Council questioned the mayor's finance director, Rob Dubow, over whether the mayor himself will present a plan to raise an extra $60 million for the school district, or whether that political hot potato will fall in the lap of Council.
Ten-year-old Katarina Dedes says conserving electricity really isn't very hard.
