Senate Bill 1067, which requires screening early elementary grade students for math difficulties, can significantly improve ...

Reading Ali Smith’s work feels like wearing my favourite old blue shirt. Her writing is effervescent with kindness, challenging the violence of a political landscape that seeks to confound, divide and ...

Zadie Smith’s new novel, “The Fraud,” is a Dickensian delight. Not only is it set in 19th century England with a sprawling cast of characters high and low, but Charles Dickens himself makes an ...

The response, at least in its ideal form, was not to narrow literacy instruction but to strengthen it. Schools restored ...

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Writer Adam Morgan knew nothing about Margaret C. Anderson when he “bumped into her ghost by accident” along a shadowy corridor on the ninth floor of downtown’s Fine Arts Building in 2008. There — in ...

The festival, taking place April 18-19 at USC, will feature hundreds of authors, experts and storytellers, including Lionel Richie, Sarah Jessica Parker, Larry David, Pat Benatar, Jennie Garth, Tina ...

Her best-selling book encouraged people to tidy up homes and lives as death approached — as a gift for loved ones and to revisit memories. An excerpt from “Margareta Magnusson” (2018), a short film ...

Magnusson’s 2017 bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning turned the Scandinavian decluttering practice into a global phenomenon Swedish author and artist Margareta Magnusson, whose book on ...

Few wordsmiths in the American cultural canon can bend genres like Patti Smith, the artfully rebellious rocker, poet and author who, at 79, seems destined to keep spinning gold out of her maverick ...

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In classrooms across the state, children are learning to read from teachers required to use new tools, research and instruction. Known as the “science of reading,” this approach draws upon decades of ...