Widener Graduate Looks To Expand After-School Sports Program Overseas
Annalicia Geeter's Widener career will be remembered for much, much more than just her time playing lacrosse.
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Annalicia Geeter's Widener career will be remembered for much, much more than just her time playing lacrosse.
It's a sad fact that, as Father's Day approaches, a lot of men see their kids at arm's length, due to divorce.
Once Upon a Nation in Philadelphia is offering people the chance to learn "little known pieces of history" as part of a special program that runs through the end of July.
Artists Lucy Begg and Robert Gay spent a week assembling the intricate weave of metal and PVC pipe that, Begg says, they call "escaped infrastructure".
The course "Prison, Society and You" seeks to change the lives of those on both sides of the prison bars.
The School Reform Commission publicly has no "plan B" now that Philadelphia City Council has decided to cut by more than half the amount of new money going to the school district.
A New Jersey Senate committee has approved a bill that overhauls higher education in the state, including a plan that sets up a joint board to oversee operations at Rowan University and Rutgers-Camden. The bill now goes to another Senate committee for more debate.
Students and faculty at St. Stanislaus parish school in Lansdale celebrated the end of an era Wednesday by digging up a time capsule
It was full circle for actor Tony Danza, the former "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss" star whose experience as an English teacher at Northeast High School was captured in the reality show, "Teach."
The head of the union that represents custodians in Philadelphia public schools says the school district is bargaining in bad faith, trying to dismantle the union while obtaining millions of dollars in concessions from workers.
More than 100 people in the fields of health care and nutrition heard a rallying cry against obesity from a man described as "the commander-in-chief" of the fight.
The Philadelphia School District has seriously curtailed summer school but there are alternatives and some of the most innovative summer youth programs are free.
Severe budget cuts mean that only seniors will have access to remedial summer school in the Philadelphia School District. Underclassmen, if they want summer school, will have to pay.
Rowan University's governing board has endorsed legislation merging the school with Rutgers-Camden, while asking to retain its authority over campus matters.
The Camden Literacy Project held an event on Monday that allowed K-3 students to take books home for summer reading.
When deciding to dismiss students early because of hot weather, officials say they look at more than just a single day's forecast.
The Philadelphia School District will be sending students home from class early today because of expected high heat and humidity. Parents and students are burning up over the issue.
Philadelphia schools will close at noon, tomorrow, because of anticipated high temperatures and humidity, according to the School District of Philadelphia.
The refurbished library at the William D. Kelley Elementary School, at 28th and Oxford Streets, has been rededicated in honor of the late Tony Irving.
The book, Don't Forget, God Bless Our Troops, is about the Bidens' granddaughter and her experiences when her father, Beau Biden, was in Iraq with the Delaware National Guard.
"It is very important to be professional, that includes being on time all of the time, knowing the dress code and dressing appropriately." Temple University's Rachel Brown says.
Both the Board of Trustees and the Board of Governors huddled in a closed session before approving the document which, among other things, insists that both Rutgers-Camden and Rowan retain their autonomy, and that any collaboration abide by a state law that set up Rutgers as an independent institution.
Pink slips are going out later this week for 270+ non-teaching personnel.
School district officials say Universal Companies will begin paying some operating costs next year at Audenried High School and Vare Middle School, after paying nothing this year.
Hundreds of parents packed the Maple Point Middle School's gym for the tonight's school board meeting, carrying signs with a message for the striking teachers in Neshaminy.
