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12+ sets up high school students for bright futures

21 January 2014 Siobhan Redding

Local nonprofit gets volunteer help from Temple students.

A Look at Leadership

22 August 2011 Kierra Bussey

This morning I woke up to my regular routine of the morning news and I was floored when the headlines read “Ackerman is out.” I thought maybe I was still half asleep and that this

Fannie Blume attended three schools within the Philadelphia School District: Joseph C. Ferguson Elementary School at Seventh Street and Fairmount Avenue, Frederick Douglass School at Seventh and Norris streets and Douglas Stephen High School at

Getting Ready

13 September 2010 Editorial Board

Students improving their skill sets should be sure they’re ready to teach. Fourteen teachers in the Philadelphia School District proclaimed they quit not by giving a two weeks notice, but by simply not showing up

Controlling the mobs may take a band of its own

12 April 2010 Shari C. DaCosta

Last week, Cary Carr examined how the city’s recent flash mobs could translate into a positive movement. Shari DaCosta takes a look at the team effort needed by the city, its schools and parents.

Restructuring needed for SDP success

27 January 2009

Both overcrowding and under-capacity plague Philadelphia’s public school system.

City Tuition: Temple’s funding of four scholarships for city

24 March 2008 Editorial Board

In 2009, Temple will spend more than $41,000 on scholarships for four Philadelphia School District students as part of the new Temple University Philadelphia Scholars program. Since beginning its capital drive in 2002, the university

A Look at Leadership

Paging through trouble

Getting Ready