Catherine D’Ignazio holds a Ph.D. in Urban Education from Temple University. She is an Adjunct Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden.
Originating in the nineteenth century, high school sports accompanied the spread of secondary schooling and became a nationwide phenomenon as students initiated team competitions and schools instituted physical education programs. In the Philadelphia region, early scholastic sports gained legitimacy from mentoring provided by the area’s many colleges and from the School District of ...
In the second half of the twentieth century, many parents moved out of Philadelphia, Camden, or Wilmington so that their children could be educated in the suburbs. But suburban and urban public schools could not run away from each other because they served a region that was itself becoming increasingly diverse and ...
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