Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

HARRISBURG -- Quaker Valley School District pays $11,183 for each of its students attending a Pennsylvania cyber charter school

In the pre-engineering classrooms at Pittsburgh Allderdice High School, students huddle over tables and computers, mixing laughter and science, savoring the process of discovery.

Academics envision uses beyond Grand Theft Auto.
With an odd-looking strip of black foam fastened to his forehead, the young man stared intently at an image of a manhole cover on his computer screen.

The plan to require Pennsylvania high school students to pass graduation competency exams will be the hot topic at a state Senate Education Committee hearing in Harrisburg today,

When it comes to such varied behaviors as taking advice, promoting an employee or deciding what is unethical, we are all irrational in a very predictable way.

HOUSTON -- Having sex at college is one thing. Reading and writing about it is another. Rice University is the latest to dabble in the fringe trend. Open Magazine is the school's first student publication devoted to textual and sexual pursuits -- 68 pages of news articles, essays, photos, poems, even graphics on sex and sexuality.

The prospect of a single test determining whether John or Mary graduates from high school is "just a little more than scary," says David Saxe, a former member of the Pennsylvania State Board of

More than a decade after charter schools became legal in Pennsylvania, it is safe to say the schools, once considered experimental and still sometimes controversial, are here to stay.

In two weeks, Neil Durco will don a cap and gown for his college commencement, pose for family photos and accept his school's congratulations on a job well done. ...

The city school board last night agreed to try a new gifted program at five Pittsburgh Public Schools. ...

Pittsburgh Public Schools officials want to buy new math textbooks for the elementary and middle grades, pilot an overhaul of the district's gifted program and better accommodate the growing

The SATs are looming in May and June or, for some, next fall. The lucky high schoolers no doubt are cramming on the definitions of a zillion obscure vocabulary words such as sesquipedalianism.

Faculty members fight high cost of textbooks
In choosing between two good textbooks for an honors mathematical studies course, Carnegie Mellon University professor Robert Pego employed a bit of economics

The Pittsburgh Public Schools yesterday announced it will eliminate 183 positions -- mostly teachers -- next school year as the district braces for a 12 percent drop in high school enrollment. ...

Ellis School senior Zoe Li will attend Princeton University for about $15,000 a year, while classmate Eva Gillis-Buck can attend Harvard University for about the same price == both steep discounts from the universities' full tuition.