Some were public leaders; others were stalwarts in business, education, medicine, religion and other areas. The year’s list ...

Boston University professor and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez promoted his new book, which dives into his experiences with grief after the death of his research partner and explores the science of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The first thing visitors to the Elizabeth School District website see is a pop-up window with an unusual message: an invitation to help cover legal fees ...

A map shows which states banned the most books in the 2024-2025 school year. PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of books being pulled from school libraries across 23 states and in 87 public school ...

As a higher education professor, I’ve spent nearly two decades studying the rituals of the college-going process, including the transition from high school to college. Yet, no research article or ...

3 of 5 Escambia County School Board members support eliminating the book review committees. District 4's Carissa Bergosh says she is still on the fence about the matter. Under the proposed book ...

From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes ...

INSPIRES A LOCAL LIBRARIAN IS TURNING THE PAGE ON LOST BOOK FEES THANKS TO DONATIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY OF BOOK LOVERS, OUR SARAH SOWERS SHARES HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS SPREADING THE JOY OF READING. ONE ...

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South Carolina now leads the nation in the number of books banned from schools after the state board of education voted to remove 10 more books from school libraries.This brings the total of banned ...

For years, state lawmakers have told students and educators across Tennessee that they needed to improve literacy rates. The state revamped testing expectations and changed its funding formula in what ...

A U.S. District Court Judge has denied the district’s request to end the legal proceedings in a lawsuit over book bans and removals in Colorado’s Elizabeth School District. The motion filed by the ...