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Scores for math and English dropped across the nation for 12th graders, according to the Nation's Report Card, released by ...

The curriculum for elementary school students contains references to religious texts with a main focus on biblical and Christian teachings.

English fiction was a prim and sober place when Ian McEwan first started producing his morbid short stories in the 1970s. To ...

Ed Christie left behind a successful career in publishing to get children, especially boys, to learn to love reading again ...

Tafesu, my mother’s mother, never read a book. Imperial Ethiopian custom in the mid-20th century dictated that young women ...

Short stories were the form I loved above all else – going back to the days my mum and I would walk down the hill to the ...

Did you know the United States operates without an official language? President Trump wants to declare English the US's ...

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Explore some nautical adventures on your own seafaring journey with these novels about voyages over the ocean.

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This exclusive interview sheds some light on the journey of Abby Trott, the voice actor behind Nezuko in Demon Slayer and ...