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NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. - Girls at a Catholic high school in North Jersey have taken a no-cursing pledge at the request of school administrators, though some question why no such demand was made of boys.
SHORTLY AFTER 3 o'clock on a Thursday afternoon, two girls sit at a table doing their homework in a building that for nearly 40 years was a popular corner bar in Strawberry Mansion.
I KNEW ARLENE Ackerman before I met her.
I knew she had devoted her life to teaching and caring for other people's children. I knew she was driven by a faith that her children could access the abundance America offers to the well-prepared through her gift for teaching.
A Neshaminy High School sophomore and athlete has been seriously injured in Saturday night's bus accident in Boston, friends said.
Arlene C. Ackerman, 66, a lifelong educator who led the Philadelphia School District for three years, died Saturday, Feb. 2, of pancreatic cancer at her home in Albuquerque, N.M.
Larry Platt: In the past, minority strides for equality were made against ideological foes who literally blocked access to university doorways. Now, minorities are feeling passed over despite the fact that the institutions in question share their goals.
Parents and other opponents of plans to close 37 city schools have been asking the right questions, and they deserve answers, but it shouldn't take the yearlong moratorium they want to get the answers.
Rutgers University is announcing a new center named after a student who killed himself after his roommate used a webcam and saw him kissing another man.
After 19 months without a contract, a settlement might be in the offing between the higher education officials and the union representing faculty at 14 state-owned schools in Pennsylvania, including West Chester and Cheyney Universities in the Philadelphia region.
The plight of Pennsylvania's public schools will dominate many of the Legislature's debates this spring as educators face even tighter budgets and the politics of education grows increasingly precarious.
NORTH ARLINGTON, N.J. - Girls at a Catholic high school in North Jersey have taken a no-cursing pledge at the request of school administrators, though some question why no such demand was made of boys.
SHORTLY AFTER 3 o'clock on a Thursday afternoon, two girls sit at a table doing their homework in a building that for nearly 40 years was a popular corner bar in Strawberry Mansion.
THE TWO GROUPS could hardly have been more different.
One group included graduate students from the Jefferson University Hospital School of Health Professions, working on their master's degrees in occupational therapy - educated, optimistic, confident of the future.
I KNEW ARLENE Ackerman before I met her.
I knew she had devoted her life to teaching and caring for other people's children. I knew she was driven by a faith that her children could access the abundance America offers to the well-prepared through her gift for teaching.
About 24 hours after their bus smashed into a Boston overpass, a group of students and chaperones from Bucks County stepped onto another bus to head home.
ONE THING about Arlene Ackerman: You knew she was here.
Arlene had a way of generating strong feelings one way or another; loved by many parents and educational advocates, often scorned by politicians, unions and government leaders.
Two classmates lost their lives last month. Now, the Neshaminy High School community is again shaken, this time over the terrifying bus crash Saturday night in Boston that injured dozens of students and chaperones from a variety of Bucks County schools and that left a Neshaminy sophomore athlete in critical condition.
Can a Rutgers University professor win over voters in his homeland and be elected the next president of Iran?
After 19 months without a contract, a settlement might be in the offing between the higher education officials and the union representing faculty at 14 state-owned schools in Pennsylvania, including West Chester and Cheyney Universities in the Philadelphia region.
A Neshaminy High School sophomore and athlete has been seriously injured in Saturday night's bus accident in Boston, friends said.
Arlene C. Ackerman, 66, a lifelong educator who led the Philadelphia School District for three years, died Saturday, Feb. 2, of pancreatic cancer at her home in Albuquerque, N.M.
Parents and other opponents of plans to close 37 city schools have been asking the right questions, and they deserve answers, but it shouldn't take the yearlong moratorium they want to get the answers.
Larry Platt: In the past, minority strides for equality were made against ideological foes who literally blocked access to university doorways. Now, minorities are feeling passed over despite the fact that the institutions in question share their goals.
Rutgers University is announcing a new center named after a student who killed himself after his roommate used a webcam and saw him kissing another man.
About 24 hours after their bus smashed into a Boston overpass, a group of students and chaperones from Bucks County stepped onto another bus to head home.
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