Staff Writer As Susie Mahowald stands in front of her first-grade class at St. John the Baptist Catholic School, she teaches them to spell and read without opening her mouth, ...

The son of civil rights organizer Bob Moses interweaves his own story with the voices of his father and great-grandfather.

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In her large school bag Barb McNulty carries around a special four-page, handwritten letter from a former student as proof of how her teaching influenced a former journalism student. This student ...

Shaw, himself a journalist, filmmaker, and musician, served as Fedarko’s interviewer at The Arts Campus at Willits.

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Learn practical, age-appropriate strategies from Friends of Karen’s expert team to build resilience, foster trust, and open ...

Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over, President ...

When people say they “don’t like” kids, they’re expressing way more than a preference.

“Ours is a nation of immigrants,” we say. Yet we whitewash the history of colonists grabbing this land, displacing people from this land, their success enticing more people to come to this land, not ...

A 2024 study published in the International Journal of Adolescence and Youth found that they actively seek role models to ...