A phonics-based curriculum is only one part of how Mississippi went from worst to first in education. The other part is much ...

A couple of weeks ago, we began an office pool. Normally reserved for twice-a-year sporting events, the Super Bowl and March Madness. But this was for a randomly selected contestant of “Survivor,” the ...

Tech empires rise and fall so quickly that the mind can hardly conceive of one lasting half a century, but it’s true: In 1976, two 20-somethings named Steve (Jobs and Wozniak) asked their 41-year-old ...

Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...

PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - The Pickens County Library System reports many of its youth programs have been canceled indefinitely to review the content of thousands of books. Officials said ...

With his outstanding “The Hard Line,” Mark Greaney’s trademark style — his intense plotting emphasizing fast-and-furious action that taps into the changing political environment — continues to reshape ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

The American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday announced the launch of its own “evidence-based review process” of vaccine safety and efficacy for the next respiratory viral season, an apparent ...

Kelly Rowland and Cliff 'Method Man' Smith in 'Relationship Goals' (Amazon) It didn’t used to be this way, but thanks to the magic of streaming you can now pause anything at any time and pick up on ...

You knew it years ago. When you were little and people asked you what you wanted to do when you grew up, the answer was obvious: you had a dream and an idea. Sure, other interests caught your eye once ...

On a swamp called the Floating Forest, deep in the Amazon, Paul Rosolie is looking for anacondas. He had heard stories of these giant snakes growing as long as 36 feet, but he remained skeptical. He ...

In “The Cradle of Citizenship,” the journalist James Traub finds that the biggest crisis in education is not what kids are learning, but whether they’re learning anything at all. By Mark Lilla Mark ...