The Zing Dynasty, the winning team at the Rowan County Literacy Council Scrabble Scramble, grin after their win. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious cannot fit across a Scrabble board, but that does ...

Between 1892 and 1924, more than 12 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) bid farewell to their hometowns in search of better opportunities in the land of the free. Traveling with little more than a ...

When we genealogists think of immigration through New York City, which was the gateway for millions of our American ancestors, we tend to envision the huge facility Ellis Island, now a museum and ...

In a major education announcement Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed that California’s K-12 students achieved significant gains in statewide test scores and signed a new literacy bill aimed to ...

Hawaii’s history as one of the world’s most literate societies in the 19th century now sits in uneasy contrast with a modern reality: tens of thousands of adults across the state still struggle with ...

California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond visits Burbank Elementary to highlight how Spanish-speaking students are exceeding state test score averages in reading and math. Indiana University fires ...

The call came at 7 a.m.. A global media and entertainment powerhouse — one of my clients that is also one of the most recognized companies in the world — had just compressed a core business process ...

The Trump administration will keep the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island open during the partial government shutdown, the Interior Department revealed Wednesday — after New York Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

Cleveland Elementary School teacher Katia Rodriguez-Mester, left, shows an mCLASS reading test to Principal Gabriel Sandoval and Denise Alvarado, executive director of elementary education for the ...