Reading scores last year dropped two points for both fourth and eighth graders, compared to 2022. This dip accentuates the decline that occurred between 2019 to 2022, according to the National ...

For me, writing is less like a passion and more like the scratching of an itch — because it’s very difficult to be passionate ...

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Knowing the stakes, Rose and her classmates at their west-side elementary practiced the drill just as their teacher instructed. The third graders kept a stack of worksheets tucked underneath their ...

Through CalKIDS, every baby born in California automatically receives a college savings account with a scholarship of up to ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. My tween-age daughters make me proud in countless ways, but I am still adjusting to the fact that they are not bookworms. I’m pretty sure that two generations ...

A well-informed citizenry is the backbone of a healthy democracy,” writes Lindsey Cormack in her 2024 book How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It’s Up to You to Do It). She contends that raising engaged ...

Margaret Atwood's books are increasingly being banned, including her dystopian novel "The Handmaid's Tale." She talks about ...

The Hechinger Report reports a high demand for nurses amid a shortage of nursing school seats due to faculty and clinical training shortages.

Margaret Atwood's fiction tells of future worlds plagued by totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and global pandemic. At ...

In the US, the liberal arts and classical education movement has been under way for about 15 years. Now it’s coming to ...

Her keynote lecture addressed myths about academic and offered alternative visions of how academia could improve. Read more ...