Rocky Mountain Prep Ruby Hill fourth grader Sam Mercer read one million words in a month as part of the school's accelerated reading challenge.

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 ...

Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education ...

Four states—Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific approaches to reading instruction can help reverse the decline ...

On Sept. 11, Michigan representatives proposed an internet content ban bill unlike any of the others we've seen: This particularly far-reaching legislation would ban not only many types of online ...

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U.S. adults are generally underprepared to live well in older age, according to the “longevity preparedness index,” or LPI, from John Hancock, developed with the research institute MIT AgeLab. The LPI ...

Sal Frelick has had a quiet postseason so far at the plate. But it was the play he started in center field in the fourth inning of Game 1 of the National League Championship Series at American Family ...

For the first time, the velvet rope across the banister to the third level will be removed and guests will be allowed to climb the stairs for a look at the top two floors of Clayton, Henry Clay ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The past decade may rank as one of the worst in the history of American ...

The US and UK today imposed coordinated sanctions targeting a Southeast Asia–based network involved in large-scale online scams, including measures against Prince Group, a Cambodian conglomerate ...

These anthologies are specifically created to teach reading, and generally feature excerpts from fiction and nonfiction books paired with skill and strategy questions. They have a long and ...