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A third-grader in Cleveland has been removed from his parents and placed into the foster-care system because the child weighs more than 200 pounds. Too […]

Fingers run in irritating tip-toes on the keyboard behind my back. To my right: Obnoxious images of strangers on Facebook are flashing across the screen. […]

Menduawor Comgbaye—a first grader at Patterson School in  Southwest Philly—has been being marked absent for the past two weeks while his parents kept him home […]

A girl in Philadelphia—whose Facebook profile says she’s 14-years-old—has been a topic of conversation on Twitter and other social media sites after other kids filmed […]

Philadelphia Orchestra and American Federation of Musicians Reach Compromise. After a great deal of deliberation and heavy press coverage of its financial woes, the Philadelphia […]

The other day I wandered into a pop-up store. Pop-up stores are those instant retail outlets set up seemingly overnight to make a quick buck. […]

I called my brother the other day and my 17-year-old nephew picked up. Nice kid, goes to your typical suburban high school, obsessed with the […]

Last year I shared the experience of dropping off my freshman daughter at a faraway school. It was full of tears and saccharin and schmaltz, […]

I have always been terrible with names. If every man, woman and pet on the planet came equipped with a permanent name tag, I would […]

Before the start of the semester, Temple University’s journalism department holds a welcome-back luncheon for adjuncts like myself and full-time faculty. One particular teaching assistant […]

I really don’t want to pick on Drexel, the school that the late, great Constantine Papadakis transformed by running it like a corporation. Every college […]

“Are you sure we can’t just open a bakery?” At least once a month, a conversation between my high school friend and I begins with […]

The quote in yesterday’s Inquirer made me catch my breath. It was in an article on how state funding cutbacks will affect ELECT, a Philly […]

It’s the end of June and schools have shuttered their doors for summer break. My daughter is home from college in Boston and, as I […]

My job is to warn my son Sam. He’s 22, with a year left of college. We’ve spent a lot of time together on the […]