Stories about idealistic but inexperienced teachers working in challenging urban schools generally do not have happy endings. These neophytes may love children and the notion of “reaching” them, but ...

On a dead-end street in a hardscrabble corner of this city, an experiment to keep students from dropping out of school begins with 11-year-olds. Even before the first bell rings at Feltonville School ...

The School District of Philadelphia’s push to fire outspoken high school English teacher Hope Moffett provoked a federal free speech lawsuit from the teachers’ union and sparked a rally that drew over ...

There was literally no time like the present for Lindsay Moffett and Sara Hammon to earn their trips to the 2005 Miss Tennessee Pageant. Ms. Moffett was named Miss Scenic City 2005 and the Miss ...