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Hurricane Maria had ripped through the Caribbean, leaving large portions of Puerto Rico in shambles. A 16-year-old Emmanuel Bruno and his family were forced to live without running water or ...

The wonderful thing about achievement is that it has no limits. Take Wally Funk, for example. At 82 years old, she was the oldest woman to travel to space, a dream she’d been working toward since the ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

Tiffany Hogan, a professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston and the director of its speech and language literacy lab, and MaryKate DeSantis, a school-based reading ...