For more than 80 years, students at least in seventh grade through college in the U.S. have generally earned one grade for a ...

The Jonas Brothers never seem to stop. They're currently on a nationwide tour that is selling out arenas, recently released their latest project, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie and are returning to ...

Whenever I see someone reading in public, I’ll ask them about the book if it doesn’t seem intrusive (I mean, they’re reading, so I try not to bug people). This week, I thought I’d share one of these ...

If you love reading books more than interacting with people, don’t worry—your secret is safe with me. If you're a fellow bibliophile, I can relate to obsessively collecting titles for your to-read ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

What does it mean to be “smart” or “dumb”? Few questions are more deceptively complex. Most of us have strong opinions about what those words mean, but scratch the surface and it becomes clear that ...

It’s safe to say, Bill Belichick’s first season as the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels hasn’t gone according to plan. Some might even suggest his first season in college football could also ...

If you’ve ever stared at your homework feeling stuck, you’re not alone. Many children say it makes them feel stressed, bored, or even anxious. Why do teachers keep giving you work to do at home when ...

Fresh off their award-winning run at the New York Theater Festival, the creative trio of writer-performer Annabel McConnachie, director Zoé Zifer, and stage manager Chelsea Castro will reunite for a ...

You may have seen a home construction site in Sandwich on Bender Street — often with a school bus parked nearby. The project is unique in that it’s being built by students in the trades program at ...

To the editor: Researcher Joyce L. Epstein of Johns Hopkins School of Education points out that students do not need more homework, but do need better homework (“Homework faces an existential crisis.

Controlling behavior is a pretty awful trait to have. No one likes to be called controlling, and even fewer want to admit that they are controlling, even when people point it out to them. But ...