Federal immigration agents waited three minutes to call 911 after one of their officers shot Renee Macklin Good in ...
Ernest Houle grew up in Leominster, a working-class city in central Massachusetts. His two older brothers had gone to the local vocational high school, so he did too. He thought he would do better ...
Jerzak: Ah, yes this is Merlyn Jerzak calling from (Wetterling address) in St. Joe, out in the township. Dispatch: Uh-huh. Jerzak: I'm right now next door to um, my neighbors at my neighbors, the ...
Elementary schools are racing to replace their reading curricula as part of a national movement to implement teaching methods based in cognitive science. But figuring out which materials measure up is ...
“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell. The first thing Havah ...
For more than 40 years, federal law has required schools to identify and evaluate students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education. But in many states across the country that's ...
As President Trump prepares to release a list of projects that could be included in his $1 trillion infrastructure plan, groups are aggressively lobbying to make the cut. Over the past five months, ...
In 2011, Aaron Benner noticed a change in his sixth-grade classroom at Benjamin E. Mays, a high-poverty, mostly black public school in St. Paul, Minn. Benner is athletic and African-American, and he ...
Listen to this audio documentary on the Educate podcast. Subscribe now. Last school year, when Cierra was a junior in high school, her math teacher quit and a substitute teacher with no math training ...
In September 2021, a 4-year-old girl’s babysitter caught her touching another child inappropriately. “I asked her why she was doing that,” the babysitter texted the girl’s mother, “and she told me ...
A publisher that once held a commanding share of the market for materials to teach and test reading has seen its sales drop significantly in recent years — a decline its attorney attributes to the ...