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The federally funded National Reading Panel published Teaching Children to Read, a 450-page report that reviewed the scientific literature and identified five pillars of literacy: phonemic awareness, ...
Christmas came early for the 146 Unit 4 and District 116 teachers behind a host of innovative new projects, care of the ...
After Texas school districts sued over state report cards, lawmakers are studying other ways to assess campus and district ...
The author of the City Spies series chooses 7 crime novels that invite young readers to discover the culprit before the ...
Caleb sends Burden in motion towards the top of the screen alerting the quarterback that the Browns are in man coverage. Cole ...
Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...
Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. By Sam Tanenhaus. Random House; 1,040 pages; $40 and £33 A superb biography of William F. Buckley, the most influential American journalist ...
We needed speculative fiction more than ever in 2025, a year when the past and the future both breathed down our necks. And this year’s best books more than delivered, dazzling us and keeping us ...
Worth another look... Although published in 2012, this remains a definitive read on leadership, management and disciplined capital allocation. In an era defined by volatility, technological disruption ...
It's getting colder, Cincinnati. As the wintertime nears, there's no better time than now to find the perfect book to cozy up with on cold nights. If you're not sure what to read, don't fret. We've ...
INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Department of Education is releasing new data for the 2024-25 IREAD test, specifically how it relates to repeating third grade. The assessment tests whether third graders ...