In 2024, The 74 looked for school districts that were doing an exceptional job of teaching kids to read. One of the places we ...

Word for Word inaugurates a new family theater program with "The Eyes & the Impossible," about a dog who lives in San ...

Where Are You Going, Sammy Snail? follows Sammy, a thoughtful snail traveling through a bright spring meadow in search of his “special spot.” Along the way, he meets two new friends, Timothy Turtle ...

Natchez Literacy Project is donating 1,800 books to pre-K through 3rd graders at local schools, kicking off Read Across America Week with Dr. Seuss read-alouds and community support.

Do you remember the boundless wonder and imagination you possessed as a child? It's a power that many of us carry into adulthood, one that fuels our creativity.

A new assessment for young kids’ speech will help detect ‘red flag’ errors earlier, while reducing unnecessary, ...

This March, the Thursday Island Reading Series kicks off its spring season with celebrated children’s book creator Chris Van ...

Gov. Tim Walz renewed his push to tackle gun violence prevention on Feb. 24, asking lawmakers in Minnesota’s divided Legislature to meet the moment after last year’s killing of two schoolchildren at ...

ON the morning of February 11, Professor Biodun Jeyifo transitioned into immortality. Within hours, tributes poured in from former students across Nigeria, from colleagues at Cornell University, from ...

If children couldn’t come to the library, the library had to go to them,” says the head of the nonprofit Alif Laila Book Bus ...

One of the greatest performances of the past year has been Sean Penn’s mesmerising turn in Paul Thomas Anderson’s ...

Clare Barron’s gorgeous play, about an unmoored young woman returning home to care for her father, finds a new home at Cherry Lane Theater.