Part 2: Private vs. Public Colleges
The cost of college can vary widely between low-priced community colleges and elite private universities. What do students at each kind of school get for their tuition dollar?
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The cost of college can vary widely between low-priced community colleges and elite private universities. What do students at each kind of school get for their tuition dollar?
The cost of college is stressing parents and putting students into debt, but they continue to bear the burden because they're convinced it is vital for the future.
If the price of milk had gone up at the same rate as the price of college tuition, you'd now be paying 15 dollars for a gallon of milk.
Audenried High School teacher Hope Moffett has not taught a class in more than a week while the school district makes a decision on how to discipline her.
A bill that would create a tuition voucher program in Pennsylvania has cleared its first legislative hurdle, passing the state Senate Education Committee.
Conflicts among racial and ethnic groups keep Philadelphia students from learning, according to a report being released this afternoon by the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations.
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has announced that it would be closing seven Catholic grade schools in the Philadelphia area at the end of this school year due to low enrollment.
At Community College of Philadelphia, US labor secretary Hilda Solis (far left) addressed a gathering of community college presidents from across the East Coast.
Each young man and woman shadows a top city official for a day, and Archbishop Ryan senior Joseph Bozzelli got what was arguably the top job -- honorary mayor.
Negotiations continue as a central Montgomery County school district tries to avoid a teachers' strike.
Hundreds of area high school students will compete this weekend in the first round of the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science.
Another case of teenage bullying caught-on-videotape has surfaced, this time on a Downingtown School District bus.
It was a record-setting weekend of twisting and shaking at Penn State this weekend.
Students at Central Bucks East High School rallied in the school parking lot Sunday to show that they are not the "lazy whiners" that suspended school teacher Natalie Munroe labeled them.
Young people who have dropped out of Philadelphia schools say what's really happening is, they're being pushed out.
New Jersey teachers would find their tenure and salary tied to annual evaluations based largely on student test scores, under a proposal unveiled by the state's acting education commissioner yesterday.
A state senate panel kicked off a daylong hearing on legislation to create a school tuition voucher program in Pennsylvania.
Natalie Munroe, a Bucks County high school teacher suspended from her job over profanity-laced posts on her blog, says she was speaking the truth about students who are unwilling to put in hard work at school.
University of Pennsylvania reflects on the birth of the modern computer this week. University of the Sciences celebrates Founder's Day Thursday.
"Getting Piggy With It!" is a virtual fundraising campaign to send Philadelphia area kids with chronic diseases to summer camp at DragonFly Forest, a camp that works to help sick kids feel good even after the experience is over.
The company says it will invest $10 million over ten years with the goal of reducing childhood obesity and hunger in Camden by 50 percent.
Philadelphia will be one of ten cities targeted by the ScienceMakers initiative to interview and archive the stories of 180 African-American scientists across the nation and to do public programming around the project.
More schools could be closed, teachers laid off, classroom sizes expanded and furloughs are all on the table now that the district is facing a big deficit.
The latest blow to this downtrodden city came Thursday as the downtown branch of the public library was closing for good.
