A long-running debate over how schoolchildren are taught to read in Massachusetts may soon be settled: Phonics is set to become the law of the land. In an effort to reverse a decade-long decline in ...

With summer in full swing, many Livingston County residents are looking to get out and about as much as possible. For those days when you don't want to walk, swim or do another activity, finding a ...

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LAYTON, Utah — For students in Davis County, it's the first week of summer vacation, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped learning, as many are heading to their local library to check out a book and ...

The Clarksville Montgomery County Public Library is kicking off its annual Summer Reading Program with its Touch A Truck event on June 6. The free, family-friendly event will take place from 10 a.m.

Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!) By The New York Times Books Staff Welcome, dear readers, to our second ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — In a room inside the Otranto Road Library, a handful of parents learned about strategies to keep their children engaged with books during the upcoming summer break. Katie Reel, a ...

The public is getting its first look at the two pandas that will be heading from China to Zoo Atlanta. NBC’s Janis Mackey Frayer was able to visit female Fu Shuang and male Ping Ping before they make ...

The West Side elevated highway was a miracle: lanes snaking down the edge of Manhattan, a symbol of New Deal–era infrastructure investment in the United States’ biggest city. In 1973, it collapsed.

PITTSBURGH — A new regional literacy campaign is underway to get Pittsburgh-area youth more involved in reading. Local political, civic, corporate and philanthropic leaders gathered at the Fred Rogers ...

I was eight, and through my bedroom wall I could hear my mother, Heidi, talking to herself as she prepared to go to sleep. Every night, in the living room, she positioned old magazines beneath the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Part of the ‘Strong Readers Act’ includes the implementation of second graders taking third-grade reading tests, beginning next school year. When signing the bill into law, ...