“So many times, without realizing it, we parent as we were parented, so we make the same mistakes,” says Sarah McCluan, supervisor of communication services for the Allegheny Intermediate Unit. […]

A two-year public awareness campaign that aims to convince parents that science and math classes are crucial is about to make its television debut on television. The Math + Science […]

“We’re trying to really tap into the surrounding community,” says Paula Levin about her new kids’ writing program this summer, the Literary Arts Boom (or The Lab) in Garfield. “Instead of […]

“Our belief that talent is everywhere” is what sets the summer and after-school college prep program Higher Achievement apart, says Wendy Etheridge Smith, Ph.D., executive director. The national program is […]

Pittsburgh-raised Chris Sullivan has directed an animated film, “Consuming Spirits,” that makes its debut this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. The film paints a “portrait of three characters in […]

Rashad Byrdsong, long a community activist via his Community Empowerment Association, tells Huffington Post that poverty and all its roots and effects need to be treated as a public-health problem. […]

Robert Sun, president and CEO of Suntex International, Inc., believes the determination of inner-city kids – and the potential use of “deep practice” – can give these students an advantage […]

Feeding 300 children a day under any circumstances would be tough enough, but the executive chef at Children’s Hospital, Michael Harding, has an even more intimidating task: pleasing patients who […]

Listening to kids’ ideas for changing their schools and communities is the impetus behind the Hear Me project, whose latest recordings highlight some Wilkinsburg High School students with the ambition […]

March 6 marked the debut of a one-of-a-kind regional charter school that mixes cyber-education with in-person group learning. To its STEM focus (science, technology, engineering and math) it also adds […]

Susan Kosko has been a reading support teacher in the Carlynton School District’s Crafton Elementary School for 11 years, but this year is different: “The kids run into my classroom and […]

Here are some scary statistics: a recent survey of families in East Liberty found that, in an emergency, 14 percent have left their kids with a person whose full name […]

Prime Stage Theatre specializes in presenting plays of classic literature that are accessible to all ages, but to reach teens with a warning about dating violence, the theater turned to […]

Unlike every other service dog, autism service dogs are trained to allow attention — even too much attention, says Susan Wagner, who has trained 10 such dogs since foundingPerfect Fit […]

The Children’s International Summer Villages program hosts kids in Pittsburgh from all over the U.S. and the world every three years “to make peace a habit of mind among very young […]

Fifteen kids dropped out of Elizabeth Forward High School last year, and Assistant Superintendent Dr. Todd E. Keruskin says that’s 15 too many. So school district reps asked themselves how […]

“There are kids doing amazing things that they would never have been able to do without this program,” says Kate Vavpetic, senior school head at Fox Chapel’s Shady Side Academy. […]

Two Fox Chapel High School juniors are winners in the essay contest of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America – two of only three kids from Pennsylvania […]

The head of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz says arts and culture nonprofits are still struggling to get as much funding as other nonprofits. Read the […]

“Part of what we’re doing is giving them permission to tell their own truth,” Jim Daniels says about the high-school students who write about race and related issues for the […]