Today in History for Jan. 9: In 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Hillsborough school board voted unanimously Tuesday to remove two more books from school shelves. "Blankets" by Craig Thompson and "Identical" by Ellen Hopkins were previously ...

The New York City mayor cut his political teeth at the progressive Bank Street School for Children. Classmates and teachers ...

“I just did what I would hope somebody would do for my own,” said Alexis Simon Lorain City Schools A fifth-grade teacher leaped into action after noticing a student was choking while eating a snack ...

The IMF Executive Board today completed the fifth review of Ghana’s 39-month Extended Credit Facility Arrangement. This allows for the immediate disbursement of about US$385 million (SDR 267.5 million ...

In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and ...

CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fifth Third (Nasdaq: FITB) today announced that Thomas H. (Hal) Harvey will retire from its Board of Directors, and Priscilla Almodovar will join the Board, effective ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled that a discrimination lawsuit filed by Jackson State University Vice President Debra Mays Jackson can move forward after members of Mississippi's ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Here's my summary of the May 23 majority en banc opinion by Judge Kyle Duncan in Little v. Llano County, which the Supreme Court just declined to review (you can also read more about the debate on the ...

Miller connected with Shoemaker for 22 touchdowns this season. Rye is tops in Section 1 with five NYSPHSAA titles; Somers and Dobbs Ferry have four apiece. This was the first Class A title in program ...

The Class 4A State Championship featured two of Kentucky’s most dominant powerhouses — the No. 4 Boyle County Rebels and the No. 5 Franklin County Flyers. Boyle County entered Friday night chasing ...