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Alaska’s Legislature adjourned last week without addressing an issue that many residents of coastal, Native villages see as ...
U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns ruled that the lawsuit against educational publisher Heinemann and three of its ...
Five years after George Floyd’s killing set off nights of destruction, vacant lots and broken buildings remain along Lake ...
Elementary schools are racing to replace their reading curricula as part of a national movement to implement teaching methods based in cognitive science. But figuring out which materials measure up is ...
There’s a name for the program at the heart of Steubenville’s remarkable reading results. It’s called Success for All. It’s been around for decades, and numerous studies have shown it’s effective. But ...
A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the past 50 years, it has hollowed out many ...
In spite of years of pressure from advocates, access to emergency contraceptives remains difficult for women who rely on the health care systems run by or on behalf of their tribal nations. APM ...
A publisher that once held a commanding share of the market for materials to teach and test reading has seen its sales drop significantly in recent years — a decline its attorney attributes to the ...
Pressure is mounting on two universities to change the way they train on-the-job educators to teach reading. The Ohio State University in Columbus and Lesley University near Boston both run prominent ...
“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell. The first thing Havah ...