In a sixth-grade reading classroom at Dunloggin Middle School in Ellicott City on Tuesday, teacher Amy Monachino guided her students through a chapter in Lois Lowry's "Number the Stars." Books on the Holocaust lined the chalkboard. But the only ...

These questions were prompted by a series of psychic experiences Cindy has had since she was young. Here’s a summary of the main points in her long letter. She used to read ghost stories, including my latest book, until her cousin told her to stop ...

At a time when there has been a noticeable decline in children reading for pleasure, brought about in part by the attractions of technology and general pace of children's lives, the need for inspirational storytimes and storytelling have become ...

You've probably seen the headlines by now. The Daily Telegraph ran a story headlined "Mind reading device could become reality", the Sydney Morning Herald hailed the "breakthrough in mind reading technology", and popular gadget blog Gizmodo told ...

Fear not: thanks to LeVar Burton, an entire generation of children will not have to grow up without learning the joys of literacy from "Reading Rainbow." According to TV Guide, Burton is creating a new mobile app to inspire today's kids to read.

Lostprophets have hinted that they could be playing this year's Reading and Leeds festival. The band, who are set to release new album 'Weapons' on April 2, said their dream is to headline the event. Discussing possible festival performances this summer ...

A North Carolina woman amazingly warded off an attacker --after he slashed her throat -- by reading Bible verses to him for over an hour, according to local reports. Lindsay Wood, 32, and her teenage son had just arrived to their Shelby home ...

The planned L.A. reading of the play "8," featuring George Clooney, Matthew Morrison and others, will take place as scheduled on March 3, following Tuesday's ruling by a U.S. appeals court declaring California's ban on same-sex marriage to be ...

Sports Minister, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Anlo, Mr Kofi Humado has launched a reading competition for public basic schools in the Keta municipality with a call on stakeholders to help arrest the falling standard of education in the area.

The University of the Philippines College of Education did not need a departmental, national or regional directive to initiate and sustain almost half a century of academic pursuits and pioneering work in literacy education. Its Department of Reading ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Archipelago Learning (NASDAQ:ARCL - News), a leading subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider of education solutions, today announced the launch of Reading Eggspress, a web-based reading and ...

COMPTON, Calif. — Some parents have filed complaints with the Parent-Teacher Association after a former adult film star said she read to children in a classroom at a Los Angeles County elementary school. Sasha Grey, a 23-year-old ex-porn actress who has ...

Basketball news is scarce during this lockout. Instead of reading about LeBron James’ latest triple-double, as we should be two weeks into November, we are instead subjected to a ridiculous tabloid story about the alleged anti-Semitism of the Miami Heat superstar.

To help shy students confront their fear of public reading, an Ohio school is bringing in a different kind of audience. The Portsmouth Daily Times reports (http://bit.ly/umYvMt ) the Portsmouth West Elementary is having students read to therapy dogs to ...

Interesting development in the MF Global story after the close: The $300mm is in the form of a guarantee. The objective is to get the Bankruptcy Trustee to release money owed to former MF customers. From the CME release: "Though CME Clearing does not ...

Marine Bob Orzechowski was long removed from the battlefield when he first felt welcomed home from the Vietnam War. That finally happened in 1986 - 15 years after his return - when the community came together to pay for and create the stunning ...

TUSCALOOSA | For about eight hours Saturday, the scene at Central High School’s library was that of a robot uprising. But it was a controlled uprising, and behind those controls were about 30 kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers from ...

Now that our children are in their holidays, parents are probably wondering how to occupy them. Activities will most likely range from providing children with TV shows, birthday parties at home and at friends' houses, visiting friends and relatives ...

Chris Jeon did hesitate. But it was just once, he says, and it didn’t involve much soul searching. It worked like this. Last summer, Jeon, a UCLA student flew to Egypt. When he landed, he caught a plane for the Middle East, eventually arriving ...

Veterans Day Poetry Event featuring Vietnam veterans Charles H. Johnson, 2011 New Jersey Poets Prize Award winner, and Lamont B. Steptoe, winner of the 2005 American Book Award, 7 p.m. Monday, Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission ...