Marla Blakney’s fifth-grade classroom is the front line in the nation’s largest experiment in privately run public schools. And on a muggy fall morning in Room 308 at Harrity Elementary School, the ...

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Schoolkids aren’t the only ones in Philadelphia praying for a good report card this month. Last fall, with most of the city’s students testing well below state averages in reading and math, ...

The Philadelphia Experiment. October 28, 1943. The day the U.S. Navy allegedly cracked time travel, teleportation, and invisibility—or so the story goes. What really happened was far more terrifying.

One October day in 1943, the U.S. Navy reportedly tried to make the destroyer escort USS Eldridge invisible. Not camouflaged, not impervious to radar, but literally and completely unseeable. Word of ...

The Philadelphia Experiment is a 1984 science fiction film. It is directed by Stewart Raffill and based on the urban legend of the Philadelphia Experiment. A sequel called Philadelphia Experiment II, ...

The Philadelphia Experiment is one of the most mysterious and controversial events in modern history. Conducted by the U.S. Navy, the experiment reportedly aimed to make a ship invisible to radar, but ...

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