Len Lipkin

How a Community Can Change a School [EVENT]

I know that many of you are interested in getting involved to improve your local school. If so, this event on May 5 may be of interest to many of you

Len Lipkin

School Open Houses in West Philly

West Philly Elementary School Open Houses are scheduled for next week and beyond.

Len Lipkin

Deep Freeze for Prospective Penn Alexander Parents [Video]

It's great that the district has a school that inspires parents, but clearly there is something wrong with a system that necessitates parents camping out overnight in single digit temperatures.

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Philly School Search: Choice Cuts Week of 2011-01-14

New items of interest to parents this week, from all over the media.

Len Lipkin

Philadelphia Students Build “Bad-Ass” Hybrid Vehicles [Video]

Ted Hauger spoke at TedXPhilly about his experience directing the Hybrid X Team. In the talk, he spoke about standardized testing and education reform. He even wants to start a school, Green Technology High School.

Len Lipkin

Music at School as a Vehicle for Social Change [Video]

Recent efforts in Philadelphia by Tune Up Philly have shown that music in schools can also be a powerful social agent in addition to an educational tool.

Len Lipkin

Making Bache-Martin Part of The Neighborhood

My local catchment school Jenks isn't the only Philadelphia public school with parents pushing to make it more of a neighborhood school. Bache-Martin is doing the same thing. While Jenks has included prospective parent's teas and distributed lawn signs in their efforts to spread the word. The "Neighborhood Parents for Bache-Martin" organization has

Len Lipkin

Activists Like Me

Thomas Friedman, columnist for the New York Times wrote in a recent column entitled Steal This Movie, Too that “there is a movement stirring in this country around education.”  I like to think that I have not only noticed this movement myself (in South Philly and West Philly, specifically) and, in the creation of this blog, been an active participant.  I also wrote a story about an upcoming...