Listen to this audio documentary on the Educate podcast. Subscribe now. In early September, we released an audio documentary and accompanying article called Hard Words: Why aren't kids being taught to ...

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 ...

Ever since the 2008 economic recession, the state of Oklahoma has struggled with worsening teacher shortages. As in many states, the problem in Oklahoma is two-fold: A growing number of teachers have ...

The state of Maine has been living large when it comes to a popular federal transportation grant. In December, the state was awarded money from the U.S. Department of Transportation for the 14th time ...

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 ...

Aracely Benavides first went into the fields when she was a kid. "I was probably like 13," she said. "I started working really young." Her family needed her to start working to help to make ends meet.

Two weeks after Jacob Wetterling was abducted in St. Joseph in October 1989, an older man walked into the very Tom Thumb store where the 11-year-old had rented a video the night he went missing. The ...

When a doctor phoned Michael Webber on Monday with the results of his antibody test for the coronavirus, her first word was filled with irony: "Congratulations." He had tested positive, meaning that ...

The choices you make as a teenager can shape the rest of your life. If you take high school classes for college credit, you’re more likely to enroll at a university. If you take at least 12 credits of ...

Violence was a dark feature of law enforcement in Minnesota's largest county 20 years ago. Amy Klobuchar saw it firsthand as the Hennepin County Attorney, though she kept a distance. Over eight years ...

For years, Utah has been the epicenter of the nation’s so-called troubled-teen industry. Since 2015 some 20,000 kids have been sent to programs in Utah that cater to parents and state agencies ...