“Pittsburgh is a really cool city, unlike any I’ve ever been in before,” writes the author who brought her family to town for a three day visit.” Read what she […]

“The Greater Pittsburgh Region is a 21st century model of a creative, collaborative, and connected community committed to creating remarkable learning experiences for children and youth that enhance achievement in […]

How much fun is Kidsburgh for kids? Read the story here.

Some may argue that placing high-school-age juvenile offenders in jobs is a good idea. But a new Pitt study shows that students who work more than 20 hours weekly and […]

Educational standouts at Science and Technology Academy In 2005, Samuel K. Franklin had been a sixth-grade math and science teacher in Oakland, California, for a mere three years when he […]

Rachel Gogos remembers a time, near the beginning of her years running a home business with two daughters now 7 and 5, “when I had lined up a phone call […]

Secretly teach your kids career building skills While children don’t know yet what their perfect job might be, kids in Pittsburgh are especially lucky to be able to choose from […]

Aileen Owens, director of technology and innovation at the South Fayette Township School District, has spent the last two years bringing E-missions, robotics, video-game making, and Scratch programming classes to […]

ASSET brings statewide STEM expertise to free conference ASSET STEM Education, the South Side nonprofit that has helped school districts across the state implement hands-on curricula for science, technology, engineering […]

Betty Hill has been puzzled when local schools and foundations report that their anti-bullying programs are working, yet she still hears so often from LGBT students that they’re being bullied. […]

Jeremiah’s Place closer to opening as crisis nursery Pittsburgh’s first crisis nursery, Jeremiah’s Place, is on track to open in 2013 as a way for families with the youngest children […]

It’s hard to imagine an eight-month-old baby doing more than drooling and banging on an iPad, but The Early Learning Institute has discovered that kids this young can benefit from app-based […]

When Dawnell Davis-White was filming her one-minute video Future Newscaster as part of a Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh video workshop this past summer, no one knew she would end up in the […]

Visual arts students in the Ellis School took home more than 10 percent of the recent regional Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards — and art department Chair Sara Sturdevant is not […]

Three teachers and the principal from Woodland Hills’ Dickson Elementary have led their fourth graders to multi-year science score improvements on the state’s standard test. As a result, they were […]

Introduction: “There’s such a range of how writers interpret the idea of diversity in their own lives,” says Jim Daniels, Carnegie Mellon University English professor who oversees the Martin Luther […]

The last Kids+Creativity network gathering was great enough to merit a highlight reel, put together by The Sprout Fund/Spark and available here. This local movement is all about meeting and […]

Hear Me, the CMU project that gathers kids’ stories to get them public notice and prompt action on kids’ issues, will debut new, more interactive public story kiosks in April, […]