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(12/10/14 8:26am)
Syeda Islam was a half hour late to her first Math 103 class this semester because she was lost in David Rittenhouse Laboratory. She had to ask for an extension on the first homework assignment because she couldn’t figure out how to access it on MyMathLab — a first day scenario that might sound familiar to any new undergraduate.
(12/10/14 12:58am)
Penn students took over Penn President Amy Gutmann’s annual holiday party on Tuesday night, demanding that the University pay money to support Philadelphia schools.
(12/03/14 7:19am)
The School District of Philadelphia is taking the next step in expanding the number of charter schools in the city. On Tuesday, the district announced that public hearings will be held on Dec. 11 at its headquarters for charter school applicants in West Philadelphia.
(12/01/14 7:53am)
A report from Penn researchers found that the School District of Philadelphia is in fact doing more with less, but that districts across the state still would need $3.55 billion more to achieve academic proficiency.
(11/25/14 7:23am)
A RoboMentor is not exactly what it sounds like. Rather than a futuristic robot personal guru, it’s a Penn engineering student who advises local high school students in robotics competitions.
(11/20/14 7:49am)
Two new charter schools might appear in Penn’s zip code in the near future.
(11/14/14 12:46am)
The Graduate School of Education kicked off it’s first formal researcher-practitioner partnership with the School District of Philadelphia at a mini-conference on Wednesday.
(11/04/14 7:59am)
Education tops the list of concerns for Pennsylvania voters in today’s gubernatorial election — as well as the platforms for Pennsylvania’s two gubernatorial candidates.
(10/28/14 6:00am)
The Teachers Institute of Philadelphia at Penn does for public school teachers what drafting does for bike racers, Thomas Alva Edison High School English teacher Sydney Coffin explained over the phone on Sunday.
(10/25/14 7:24pm)
Before he became a Philadelphia public school principal, Ted Domers learned about how other school leaders — from private, public and parochial schools — handled challenges in their halls.
(10/21/14 6:27am)
As of Oct. 20, Philadelphians caught with small amounts of marijuana will only be fined $25 as far as the city is concerned .
(10/16/14 2:27am)
When Amy Gutmann became president of Penn in 2004 , she ushered in a new era of local engagement with the Penn Compact.
(10/07/14 5:40am)
Education is not necessarily the first job sector you would think college graduates would go into.
(10/07/14 5:38am)
In an impromptu School Reform Commission meeting on Monday morning , the SRC voted to cancel the contract between the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers and the School District of Philadelphia .
(10/01/14 6:04am)
If you manage to catch Helen Gym for five minutes, two of them might be spent on the phone with a school district parent or dropping off materials from Parents United for Public Education for Back to School nights across the city.
(09/23/14 6:33am)
The Pennsylvania House passed a bill that includes a local $2-a-pack cigarette tax that is set to help close the budget gap for the School District of Philadelphia on Monday. The 114 to 84 vote comes two weeks after the first day of school for Philadelphia public school students.
(09/18/14 4:51am)
Tuesday was a typical school day at the Henry C. Lea Elementary School.
(09/11/14 4:58am)
Seven school district parents with the group Parents United for Public Education filed a lawsuit on Wednesday claiming that the Pennsylvania Department of Education has failed to investigate complaints about “curriculum deficiencies” in the School District of Philadelphia.
(09/10/14 1:35pm)
Borrowing books from the school library is a thing of the past for many Philadelphia pubic school students these days, but one nonprofit organization is hoping to change that.
(09/07/14 11:49pm)
Students across Philadelphia begin school today with a big question mark in the district budget.