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Four current students in the Education Policy master's program in the Graduate School of Education can practically pinpoint the moment they realized they wanted to change the system.
In a impromptu School Reform Commission meeting this morning, the commission voted to cancel the contract with between the School District of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers.
While graffiti is on the rise in Philadelphia, Penn professor and Mural Arts Program Executive Director Jane Golden is working with Penn students and the city to create public art that benefits the community.
Penn's plan to build an apartment complex at 40th and Pine streets is one step closer to becoming a reality, but there is still much opposition to overcome.
The popular brunch spot Green Eggs Café, located on 13th and Samson, recently received its liquor license, and will start serving alcoholic beverages this weekend.
With a recent award of $6,500 from PECO and Natural Lands Trust, University City District is slowly coming closer to redeveloping the 40th Street Trolley Station.
An eight-year-old girl died earlier today after falling out of an apartment building blocks away from campus, CBS Philly first reported Wednesday morning.
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.
In 2011, Holly Fetter joined Resource Generation after
experiencing a conflicting sense of identity within the national economic
system.As the Occupy movement illuminated the disparity between the
1% and the 99%, Fetter, a junior at Stanford University at the time, felt
disillusioned by her privilege.
Borrowing books from the school library is a thing of the past for many Philadelphia pubic school students these days?and not for the technological reasons you might be hoping.
West Philadelphia artist and 1977 PennDesign graduate James
Dupree is fighting to save his art studio from the city’s seizure of private
properties in Mantua.
Drexel University will announce to trustees and senior staff tomorrow that Harris Steinberg, currently executive director of PennPraxis, will head the Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, according to an article in Philadelphia Magazine.
The Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement is cracking down on underage drinking at Philadelphia colleges as the fall semester begins, although it is currently unclear whether the BLCE will patrol near Penn during New Student Orientation.
The Democratic National Committee named Philadelphia as a finalist to host the 2016 Democratic convention, where delegates will officially nominate the party's candidate for President.