In McKeesport, Pennsylvania—a city once shaped by steel and now reshaped by resilience—there stands a school quietly redefining what learning can look like for a new generation.
The first thing you notice about Adlai E. Stevenson High School is the scale. It doesn’t feel like a high school so much as a well-funded corporate campus or a small, exceptionally tidy city. Sprawled across 76 acres of suburban
To stand outside Glenbrook North High School is to stand in a frame of collective memory. You can almost see him: Ferris Bueller, impossibly cool, convincing his girlfriend Sloane to skip school from the payphone near the front steps. The
On the historic Pennsylvania Main Line, a stretch of affluent communities 13 miles west of Philadelphia, choice is a given. It’s woven into the very fabric of life, from the old stone manors to the prestigious private schools of the
A school district, on paper, is a thing of maps and mandates, of budgets and board meetings. It is a geometry of attendance zones, a bureaucratic skeleton serving a community. It has a superintendent, in this case, the highly regarded
