In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...

Willie Mae King remembers standing on a stage in a red and white outfit, celebrating the end of third grade with her classmates. “I remember everything from that time,” said King, now 64. “I loved ...

An analysis of videos, 911 calls, fire department records and dispatch logs conducted by MPR News and APM Reports raises questions about whether the federal agency that mortally wounded Renee Macklin ...

Here’s a reading list put together by Emily Hanford, host and lead producer of our podcast Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong. I’ve chosen 10 things to recommend. I’ve read hundreds ...

Sequel Youth & Family Services, a company that once sought to dominate the youth behavioral health industry, is facing growing financial turmoil amid new allegations of mistreating children. The ...

Ernest Houle grew up in Leominster, a working-class city in central Massachusetts. His two older brothers had gone to the local vocational high school, so he did too. He thought he would do better ...

Government officials across the Midwest face pressure to address high levels of nitrate pollution in water, which researchers have linked to illnesses including cancer, birth defects and thyroid ...

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt both used the new medium of radio to reach into American homes like never before. They rallied the nation ...

For more than 40 years, federal law has required schools to identify and evaluate students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education. But in many states across the country that's ...

As President Trump prepares to release a list of projects that could be included in his $1 trillion infrastructure plan, groups are aggressively lobbying to make the cut. Over the past five months, ...

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 ...