As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case that involves whether possessing AR-15s is protected by the Second Amendment, but the court’s conservatives are signaling they soon will. Only ...

The justices rejected an appeal from gun rights advocates. The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun-rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland's ban on assault-style ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Pagers have become the focus of international attention following a series of simultaneous explosions in Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday that killed at least 12 people, including two children, and ...

A 14-year-old boy used an AR-platform-style rifle in a high school near Atlanta, Georgia and killed two students and two teachers. He also wounded nine more people in Apalachee High School, eight of ...

On Wednesday, Georgia authorities say a 14-year-old boy brought an AR-platform-style rifle into Apalachee High School near Atlanta, Georgia and killed two students and two teachers. He also wounded ...

The 22 ARC is a competition-born cartridge that aims to elbow its way to the top of the gas gun world. The cartridge’s original development strove to propel the most efficient bullets fast enough to ...

A federal court judge on Tuesday ruled New Jersey’s ban on AR-15 rifles is unconstitutional, a decision that could force the state to lift its decades-old prohibition on certain semi-automatic weapons ...