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Student and educator for ABCs and Ph.D.

Annemarie Jay had kissed hundreds of her first-grade students on the cheek as they said goodbye on the last day of school.

 

Temple U. adjunct teachers stage a protest

Adjunct instructors, who say they make up nearly half of Temple University's faculty, called for better pay and working conditions yesterday at a demonstration in front of the campus bell tower near Paley Library.

 

District OKs bid for daily gym

With medical papers in hand, it agreed the move would benefit Jack McLaughlin, 11.

The Downingtown Area School District agreed yesterday to allow a Lionville Middle School sixth grader coping with diabetes to take physical-education classes every day, as his family had requested.

 

Owen J. Roberts board hires superintendent

Weeks before six of its nine members leave office, the Owen J. Roberts School District board has hired a superintendent over the objection of many who wanted the new board to make the decision.

 

Diabetic boy's parents fight school over exercise

Jack McLaughlin is a bright, articulate Lionville Middle School sixth grader whose main mission these days, along with schoolwork, is keeping his blood sugar under control.

 

Daniel Rubin: Leading city kids to classical awareness

At Penn Wynne Elementary, everybody got to pick out an instrument in fourth grade. Ben Raper chose the trumpet. Lower Merion paid for the rentals back then, so the boy's horn came free, as did the lessons, once a week, held in his school.

 

Temple, district plan college-track high school in N. Phila.

Aiming to attract more college-ready students from Philadelphia, Temple University is looking to open a high school in partnership with the city school district.

 

Teacher-prep high school to open in Kensington

A new small high school devoted to preparing would-be teachers to work in Philadelphia will open in Kensington next fall, district officials confirmed yesterday.

 

Dad Vail Regatta to leave Philadelphia

After 56 years of racing on the Schuylkill, the Dad Vail Regatta, a storied springtime staple in Philadelphia and the largest collegiate rowing event in the country, is moving to North Jersey, for a year at least.

 

City Council questions limits on charter school growth

At a time when the state legislature is mulling placing more restrictions on charter schools, City Council held an unusual hearing last night to question whether the Philadelphia School District has too much oversight over charters.

 

Charter schools to sound off on district policy change

Philadelphia charter school operators who say a proposed school district policy will limit their ability to increase enrollment will air their objections today during a City Council committee meeting.

 

Karen Heller: A tightly focused mission: To make Girls High work

Dr. Cassandra Ruffin sits. "To be honest, I never sit," she says. Mostly, it's up and down four flights of stairs, popping into classrooms. Ruffin is principal of Philadelphia High School for Girls. Three years ago, she became the first alumna to head the institution, founded in 1848.

 

Grieving family acts to aid young drivers

Simulators are a way of remembering Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Although his graduation portrait hangs at Shawnee High School, Ryan Fitzpatrick never got to walk down the commencement aisle with his fellow seniors. He never made it to the prom. He will never play college football.

 

Ebony and ivory - and longevity

A master's influence reverberates over 73 years at Curtis.

Perched on the edge of a rocking chair with a score opened before her, Eleanor Sokoloff looks up into the air and shakes her head in time to the music.

 

Barrack Hebrew Academy teachers plan strike Monday

Teachers at Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, a private day school on the Main Line, announced yesterday that contract talks with administrators had broken down and that they would strike beginning Monday.

 

Schools welcome Race to the Top competition for funds

Pennsylvania and New Jersey could get between $200 million and $400 million each in education money from the federal Race to the Top Fund competition, the U.S. Department of Education announced yesterday.

 

International award for Temple researcher

Temple University professor Laurence Steinberg will take his research on teen brain development and risky behavior international with a $1 million award he received yesterday.

 

Resources, services increase for vets on campus

When former Navy machinist Lauren DelRicci arrived at Burlington County College in 2004, she felt "a certain emptiness" at no longer serving her country.

 

A different approach to the sport of running

The Wow! moment came when Chris McDougall raised his left leg and displayed the bottom of his bare foot. It was smooth, with no calluses or blisters.

 

Penn students learn how to help peers in need

On an unseasonably beautiful sunny afternoon yesterday, seven student volunteers spent four hours in a University of Pennsylvania conference room learning how to help their peers - maybe save their lives.

 

Video: Getting into college

Getting into college video

 

Essays from several of the high school seniors that The Inquirer is following through the admissions process.

 

Lots of new principals in city schools

Out of 270 Philadelphia district schools, 37 will get new principals. Retirement and resignation are causes.

A change in CEO isn't the only new thing sweeping the leadership ranks in the Philadelphia School District. Thirty-seven of the district's 270 schools will get new principals this year, district officials said. Eleven are high schools, several of them high-profile. District officials said the turnover was larger than the usual 30 or so changes a year, although not as many as in 2003, when 52 schools got new principals.

 

City teens head to summer school

Earlier this month, they marched up a long Convention Center aisle to cheers, applause and snapping flashes. They are the Class of 2007 of Philadelphia Futures, the nonprofit organization that picks at-risk teenagers from city high schools and prepares them - from ninth grade - to earn college diplomas. There are mentors, tutors, and financial and emotional support.

 

Candidates vying to be teachers' pet

Eight presidential candidates came to Phila. to court the National Education Association. They said largely what teachers wanted to hear.

Fifteen minutes before Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was scheduled to speak yesterday, teachers in the audience were crawling across the floor, trying to get closer to the lectern for a better camera angle.