Kim Baker has been teaching for 20 years — but for the past nine years she’s been at Bright Academy. The school is the only ...

The sound of thrilled giggles filled the classroom as Sharon Latek passed out letters to each of her first-grade students at ...

It’s time we invest in our kids and our future To balance the budget, state lawmakers are weighing proposals that would dramatically reduce funding for public schools next year. They want to change ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce recently updated its five-year-old guidance for school districts that want to ...

The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

We will remember May 8, 2005, when Denver Police detectives Donnie Young and Jack Bishop were shot by you, Raul Gomez-Garcia.

York Elementary School Title I reading teacher Judy Danielson has been named the community's Educator of the Year.

Since you like the tea, I thought I might share a story that happened to me. A female high-school friend and I had decided to ...

My husband and I both have full-time jobs and an 18-month-old son. I am pregnant with our second child, due in February.

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