The American Library Association announced the winners of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction during the ALA Midwinter meeting in Boston.
The Youth Transition Funders Group updated its seminal Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform -- providing concrete policy recommendations aimed at improving the well-being and life outcomes for at-risk young people.
Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, writes about the U.S. Supreme Court's potential to weaken public sector labor unions.
Owner H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest donated the entire Philadelphia Media Network, which runs the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com, to the nonprofit Institute for Journalism in New Media, part of the Philadelphia Foundation. The institute...
Longtime president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, current Senior Fellow in Residence at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Karen Brooks Hopkins becomes Greene Foundation Trustee.
Glioblastoma multiforme is a particularly deadly brain cancer. Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a key to how these tumor cells proliferate so quickly --and ways to turn this engine of tumor growth into a target for cancer treatment.
Top higher-education instutions should set an admissions preference for low-income students because such students now face unjustified barriers and constitute only 3 percent of enrollment at the elite schools, according to a landmark report issued...
A crowd of more than 200 people heard Jane Forbes Clark speak Sunday at the National Baseball Hall of Fame about her family's history in and vision for Cooperstown.