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North Philadelphia: Promoting Literacy To Parents And Children In Unlikely Places

November 26, 2018Dee Patel and Christopher Malo

A shave, a haircut … and a good book? A North Philadelphia barber shop is part of a program to help increase literacy and help strengthen the community. Jasmond Schoolfield, better known as “Jazz the

Education

Strawberry Mansion: Preschools Are Important, But Underfunded

February 28, 2018Matt Rego and

Amanda Bowman always imagined herself as a mother. When the time came for her to have children, she was presented with two surprises. The first: she would have to raise them as a single parent.

North Philadelphia

Strawberry Mansion: Widener Library Block Party Teaches Vocabulary

November 9, 2015pnadmin

It was a sunny and cool afternoon for the Widener Branch Library’s first Words at Play Vocabulary Initiative block party. Words at Play, hosted by PNC, is a community-wide initiative to show the importance of learning

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