Some experts say that the Internet is the enemy of reading, but others argue the Web has created a new kind of reading, one that society should not discount.

"We have looked at the GSAT process and we have seen some things that we need to improve on," Holness told the House of Representatives last Wednesday, as he responded to concerns raised by parents and teachers about the process of assessing and assigni

Kids generally get a bad rap when it comes to their knowledge of personal finance. In the 2008 survey of high school seniors by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, the average score was 48 percent, down from 52 percent in 2006.

For an hour every Thursday, a group of teens who became involved in crime at an early age, leave the San Bernardino facility that houses them and get a second chance at education.

Federal budget cuts that threaten a Lincoln center's Even Start and adult literacy programs find its directors scrambling for alternative funding to keep its doors open.