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This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo Some kids are just lazy. They don’t care. They must have bad parents. The stigma attached to truants and dropouts is

The first floor of the Nicetown-Tioga Library looks like any other library. Books are sprawled across the layout of the interior, conversations are kept to a mere whisper and “no cell phones” and “no talking” signs are posted along the walls. Upstairs is a completely different story. Sunshine spills into the large, white room where kids are partaking in an intense game of Dance Dance Revolution. A radio is blaring in the background and a group of kids are nosily playing cards in the far end of the room.

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo With summer officially here, students are saying goodbye to homework and uncomfortable desks and looking forward to three months of freedom.

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo There’s something interesting in the way we all think, the way we strategize and comprehend what’s going on around us. Wouldn’t

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo What is it that motivates or fails to motivate an adolescent to learn? Both the Pennsylvania School Board and Abraham Lincoln

This Vimeo content is blocked because marketing cookies are disabled. Manage preferencesOpen on Vimeo “When I started school, I was very excited to go to school. I didn’t speak much English but I got some

With barely decipherable text messages, tweets and Facebook posts dominating many students’ writing, one South Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization seeks to bring proper reading and writing back into style with fun, educational workshops. Mighty Writers, started

https://vimeo.com/20332864] On October 8, 2009, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia announced the closing of Cardinal Dougherty High School at the completion of the 2009-2010 school year due to low and continually declining enrollment. As June is