Japanese warplanes bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Hours later, the FBI began rounding up people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast. Security officials suspected that if Japan attacked the ...

Elementary schools are racing to replace their reading curricula as part of a national movement to implement teaching methods based in cognitive science. But figuring out which materials measure up is ...

In 2017, after the Tubbs Fire blazed through parts of California’s wine country, a Santa Rosa resident returned home to one of the few structures left standing in his fire-scarred neighborhood. He ...

Violence was a dark feature of law enforcement in Minnesota's largest county 20 years ago. Amy Klobuchar saw it firsthand as the Hennepin County Attorney, though she kept a distance. Over eight years ...

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell. The first thing Havah ...

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the ...

Ever since the 2008 economic recession, the state of Oklahoma has struggled with worsening teacher shortages. As in many states, the problem in Oklahoma is two-fold: A growing number of teachers have ...

Co-reported by Tom Scheck of APM Reports and Scott Tong of Marketplace. WASHINGTON — In a reversal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of a six-year, $29 million study ...

Bill Orr grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota, a child of the Great Depression, bottling milk and selling it door to door. Six months after he graduated from high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl ...

Based on its own performance measures, the U.S. Postal Service has its work cut out for it before Election Day. Among the 13 postal districts serving key presidential battleground states, four failed ...

For years, Utah has been the epicenter of the nation’s so-called troubled-teen industry. Since 2015 some 20,000 kids have been sent to programs in Utah that cater to parents and state agencies ...

Early in his life, Kurt Hahn had a vision of the kind of school he wanted to create, and it was nothing like the school he went to. Hahn was born in Germany in 1886 to a wealthy Jewish family. He was ...