Plot Summary: Stanley Yelnats is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Accused of stealing a famous pair of shoes, he chooses to serve time at Camp Green Lake, where he is made to dig a 5-foot ...

A roundup of events, announcements and community news from Meriden, Wallingford, Cheshire, Southington and the surrounding ...

While pursuing his career in education, Kevin Turner always dreamed of becoming a children's author along the way.

Seventy percent of children in the U.S. don’t read proficiently in third grade. “But what we know at Scholastic from kids’ ...

BOURBONNAIS — Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 and its teachers union reached an agreement this week related to a ...

Uvalde Leader-News owner and publisher Craig Garnett knows there are people who will be unhappy with his new book about the ...

A militant but peaceful protest movement is underway at Carlos Gilbert Elementary School. It started with a student petition and has escalated to administration hearings, picket lines and sit-in ...

In fact, she’s had no formal training on elementary school literacy ... a desire to help kids — with third and fourth grade ...

Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

Calgarians from five to 105 are invited to watch as an unlikely friendship forms between a human, a pig, and a spider.

Talk about your intentional walks! Although the adolescents from the west side of town were attempting to set up a ...

Martha loves to relate her science examples in practical, everyday terms, that the kids can identify with. For example: “Divide the speed of light (300 megameters per second) by the FM frequency on ...