School starts in about two weeks for many Austin-area students. While the state's new required reading list won't take effect ...

Every generation faces its fair share of advantages and challenges, and that will never change. Currently, a growing number ...

Fun, easy ways to connect with another classroom across the world, including a virtual school tour or postcard exchange.

Teachers and program staff observed meaningful growth in students’ confidence, independence, social-emotional development, ...

"I am routinely asked questions like, 'What's eight times zero?' Or, 'how many sides does a triangle have?' These are eighth ...

Across Ghana, thousands of children start formal schooling every year full of promise. Yet many struggle to master basic reading and numeracy skills in the early grades. Six in ten Primary 4 pupils in ...

I can't imagine a world without books. But most Americans can, and effectively already do, live in that world. A devastating piece in The Atlantic, "The End of Reading is Here," lays out just how much ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

Ariela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and ...

The wording in the proposal emphasizes Torah study as “a fundamental value in the heritage of the Jewish people and in the State of Israel.” The Knesset passed the contentious bill, advanced by the ...

Correction: This article has been updated to show that 91.9% of Shelby County’s third grade students scored high enough to reach the cut score. Alabama’s third grade reading scores held steady this ...

MANILA, Philippines — A report from the Second Congressional Commission on Education (Edcom 2) showing that 87 percent of Grade 11 students cannot understand what they read only underscores the ...