by usphilly88 | Jul 5, 2017 | News
When the cops stormed into the crack house, Danielle Smith-Berry was hiding in a closet, heart beating hard. If they found her, she’d go to prison, because there were warrants for her arrest, left from the times she flunked probation for using drugs. “But...
by usphilly88 | May 16, 2017 | News
Unless a meeting lasts too long at the East Norriton ShopRite where Louis Rivera, 40, works as an assistant manager, he’ll be at Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting for a new job-training program at Enon Baptist Tabernacle church on Philadelphia’s northern...
by usphilly88 | Feb 17, 2017 | Slider
Formal education occurs in a structured environment whose explicit purpose is teaching students. Usually, formal education takes place in a school environment with classrooms of multiple students learning together with a trained, certified teacher of the subject. Most...
by usphilly88 | Feb 17, 2017 | Slider
In most contemporary educational systems of the world, secondary education comprises the formal education that occurs during adolescence. It is characterized by transition from the typically compulsory, comprehensive primary education for minors, to the optional,...
by usphilly88 | Feb 17, 2017 | Slider
Higher education, also called tertiary, third stage, or postsecondary education, is the non-compulsory educational level that follows the completion of a school such as a high school or secondary school. Tertiary education is normally taken to include undergraduate...