Contents » Education
Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Anatomy and Anatomy Education

Astronomy

Athenæum of Philadelphia

Barnes Foundation

Charter Schools

Commercial Museum

Community Colleges

Convents

Deafness and the Deaf

Education and Opportunity
In the twentieth century, many urban school districts, which had been among the finest in the nation, became some of the most challenged. The Greater Philadelphia region reflected this trend. In 1900 the region’s school systems consisted of largely uncoordinated public, parochial, and private schools. Between 1900 and 1965 politicians, educational administrators, and civic leaders ⇒ Read More
Educational Reform

Franklin Institute

Freedom Train

Friends Neighborhood Guild

Girard College

Gross Clinic (The)

High School Sports

Higher Education: Private (Religious)

Historical Societies

House of Refuge

Junto

National Parks

Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC)

Pennhurst State School and Hospital

Philadelphia Social History Project

Private (Independent) Schools

Public Education: High Schools

Public Education: Suburbs

Public Education: The School District of Philadelphia

Public Media

Radio (High School and College)

Roman Catholic Education
(Elementary and Secondary)

School Naming
Family names and place names were almost the only names one needed to know when America was composed of small, homogeneous communities. Often interchangeable, such markers signified social and cultural status. But they ceased to be sufficient when America became more diverse and the family less communal. An institution like the school needed a name ⇒ Read More
Scientific Societies

Thrift

University City Science Center

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)

Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania

Women’s Education
