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HARRISBURG — The House Education Committee moved a package of bills forward they hope will help to address the teaching shortage. While several of the...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) launched the newly refreshed Teach in PA website — a resource for individuals interested i...

HARRISBURG — Before students make it to their classroom doors, they are assisted by a host of workers who create the conditions required for education...

The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford is offering a free two-day workshop for K-12 teachers to help them integrate Indigenous knowledge and resourc...

SCHOOL: “School days, school days, dear old Golden Rule days…” the song says. We’re sure you remember your own school days, and all that’s different n...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — The Cherry Hill school district has turned to a new pool of eager candidates to fill critical substitute teacher vacancies: paren...

HARRISBURG — Students, parents, and teachers are anxiously watching and waiting to see how the state’s billion-dollar education funding increase and n...

HARRISBURG — The state of Pennsylvania’s updated guidelines for teacher preparation and professional development has toned down its focus on racial bi...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) unveiled a toolkit to develop the information literacy skills of educators, students and f...

In April, the Post-Gazette Editorial Board called for an increase in funding for the popular Educator Pipeline Support Grant Program, even as fully fu...

It’s election season. Too bad a study this year from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found that more than 70% of respondents failed a basic U.S. civic li...

SCHOOLS: “It was different when…” We took a look at some surprising facts about education from 50 years ago on the blog site https://www.giftofcollege...

Kelly Compton believes that a person’s educational choices should only be limited by their own abilities, not their economic class. As a board member ...

As a new school year gets under way this month, some Pennsylvania students will be learning what it’s like to be at the front of the classroom. This i...

MEDFORD, Mass. — Flerentin “Flex” Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, “y...

Twenty years ago I was a young man in my early 60s, newly retired from a career as a teacher in the Milton Area School District where I taught music f...

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — St. Bonaventure University is the recipient of a $953,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to encourage and su...

UNIVERSITY PARK — Teachers and other child educators can benefit from regular professional development, but in-person training can be expensive. New r...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A push is on to ensure that all future educators in Pennsylvania receive a state-funded student teacher stipend while completing wh...

HARRISBURG — An unorthodox learning program percolating across Pennsylvania schools infuses business innovation into traditional curriculum, leaving l...