In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...

Buildings burned all around Leeta Song’s family business in the nights after George Floyd’s murder. Arson and looting crippled the Lake Street commercial district, but Song hoped her neighbors would ...

In a poor, Black neighborhood in Houston, Principal Thaddeus Lott transforms a struggling elementary school with Direct Instruction. Soon, his students are outperforming students at much wealthier ...

Direct Instruction programs have long drawn criticism from educators who say they limit teacher autonomy. But surveys suggest that teachers who use the programs tend to view Direct Instruction ...

There are two reasons why Odell Hallmon's testimony was so essential to the state's case against Curtis Flowers. IN THE DARK Episode 6: Punishment The first is that Hallmon's statement — that Curtis ...

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the ...

The organization that supports Reading Recovery teachers nationwide is facing serious financial challenges after states have pulled support and hundreds of school districts have dropped the ...

In September 2021, a 4-year-old girl’s babysitter caught her touching another child inappropriately. “I asked her why she was doing that,” the babysitter texted the girl’s mother, “and she told me ...

Violence was a dark feature of law enforcement in Minnesota's largest county 20 years ago. Amy Klobuchar saw it firsthand as the Hennepin County Attorney, though she kept a distance. Over eight years ...

Faced with angry, violent protesters after George Floyd’s death, Minneapolis city leaders made the unprecedented decision to abandon a police station. It marked not only the further erosion of the ...

Bill Turner knew he had a tough job. He took over as acting director of Voter Services in Chester County, Pennsylvania, in September, just two months before a divisive presidential election amid a ...

For years, Utah has been the epicenter of the nation’s so-called troubled-teen industry. Since 2015 some 20,000 kids have been sent to programs in Utah that cater to parents and state agencies ...