education

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s state university system next year is hoping to build on the historic investment it received this year from the commo...

Every fall, my mental timeline is flooded with memories of the teachers who changed my life. And last week — when I read about the controversial termi...

COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine — This year’s theme for Wreaths Across America (WAA) is “Find a Way to Serve.” In keeping with this, the organization launched a...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – Once again, St. Bonaventure alumnus and global businessman Richard P. “Dick” Kearns, ‘72, comes home to St. Bonaventure Univer...

SLIPPERY ROCK — The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) joined Slippery Rock University and the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency...

Teaching is not an easy job, and like any profession has its own unique stressors. Instructing special needs students is a departure from teaching in ...

For as long as Penn State University has sought money from the Legislature, it has made clear that state appropriations are essential to maintaining l...

Rotary is offering students in Western Pennsylvania the opportunity to study and live in another country during the 2023-2024 school year as a part of...

Officials at a Pennsylvania school district asked a middle school teacher to take down a rainbow flag — a symbol of support for the LGBTQ community — ...

It’s odd: You’re having dinner with friends in a nice restaurant. One of them reaches for the breadsticks and carelessly elbows his water glass, swamp...

Gov. Tom Wolf announced his $21.5 million plan to provide universal free school breakfast for 1.7 million students across the commonwealth this school...

SMETHPORT — Hamlin Memorial Library has a variety of events planned for this month. Beginning Wednesday, story hours will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednes...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Some of the signs are as tiny as business cards. Others are large enough to stamp on the exterior of classroom buildings or to gran...

ELDRED: An Eldred reader phoned the newsroom on Wednesday afternoon to inform us that there had been an error in an article in Tuesday’s edition of Th...

Washington Monthly’s annual college ranking recently recognized the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford for a seventh year as a good value college an...

Break out the masks and the hand sanitizer, McKean County has been elevated to the high community risk status for COVID-19 — again. The CDC made the c...

The University of Pittsburgh has a new dean for its school of nursing. University officials announced Friday that Christine Kasper, a registered nurse...

PITTSBURGH — The University of Pittsburgh will distribute $7.5 million to more than 20,000 in-state students on all five campuses, the University anno...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — It may not be the greatest news for students who go to school in Washington County but it might be necessary. A new school policy i...

CHESTER (TNS) — A FedEx worker accidentally delivered 30 rifles intended for a private collector to Chester High School on Friday, according to Cheste...