2006-12-27 04:00:00 PDT Norco, Riverside County-- Gregory Davenport, a congenial 46-year-old in prison blues, shared with a visitor to the big state penitentiary here a common inmate's lament -- he ...

Education has long been lauded as our most powerful weapon in the war on poverty, and literacy is perhaps education’s keystone. But around the world, there are some 750 million individuals who are ...

Liz Aronson may have been in elementary school when she realized her dream career, but the memory is still sharp in her teenage mind. She had just spent the evening dining out with her mom and was ...

In Overcoming Religious Illiteracy: A Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Religion in Secondary Education, Harvard Professor of the Practice of Religion and Education and Phillips Academy ...

I once walked into an inner-city school cafeteria for an author visit and was amazed by the scene. A donor had gifted copies of my latest “Will Wilder” book to each of the children in this particular ...

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