WKAR distributes thousands of reading kits every year to mid-Michigan families by working with more than 100 community organizations across the region. Only one in four Michigan fourth graders are ...

The tool can also provide in-the-moment suggestions to students, acting as an AI-powered tutor, and also serves as a reading instruction assistant for teachers, helping generate lesson plans and more.

Do you remember the movie “The Ten Commandments?” I was in high school when I first watched it. Since then, I have watched it ...

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Back in 1998, the state became just the second in the country to offer voluntary, universal pre-K. That commitment laid a ...

I shamefully confess I watched the “No King” protests with a gleeful and almost-prurient mix of satisfaction and almost-arrogant disdain. It’s always good to see “We the People” expressing discontent ...

Enjoying alone time is one of the things people raised by good parents do that everyone else thinks is weird. People who deal ...

Ryan Lochte’s estranged wife, Kayla Rae Reid, is focusing on rebuilding amid the pair’s messy divorce. Reid took to social ...

Teachers who've been in the field for a longtime have had the chance to usher in generations of students through education — ...

A Supreme Court ruling over a Montgomery County lawsuit gave parents the right to opt their kids out of lessons with LGBTQ+ books. These are the children's books they relied on.

This award, in memory of former Newsday sports reporter Marcus A. Henry, is presented annually to a student who excels in the ...

How many times have you wished you could turn back the clock? Well, for second-grade pupils at John Gregg Elementary School, ...