"Literacy is the root of education," said Kevin Watkins, president of the Branch of the NAACP. "You have to learn to read before you can be educated." ...

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.” The weather lately seems a bit like the setting in Dr. Seuss’s classic book “The Cat in ...

Preparations are underway for Illinois to join in the nation’s celebration of 250 years of independence in 2026, and the Illinois America 250 Commission is encouraging people across the Prairie State ...

The president’s order will organize a "grand celebration of the semiquincentennial of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence." The 250th anniversary of America's founding is July 4 ...

Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Supported by By Yan Zhuang and Amy Chang Chien More than a billion people across the world, from China to the Philippines to diaspora communities in the United States ...

The president’s order will organize a “grand celebration of the semiquincentennial of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence.” The 250th anniversary of America’s founding is July 4, 2026.

As the breakout progressed, North America’s icebreaker age gap was on full display. USCGC Neah Bay and USCGC Bristol Bay, representatives of the Coast Guard’s 9-ship fleet of 140-foot ...

Registration is limited to the first 24 classes per day. Read Across America was launched in 1998 by the National Education Association and is the nation’s largest celebration of reading.

“Only in D.C. can you see the actual Declaration of Independence, and we will have by far the best celebration of the 250th in America ... planning events venues across the city, Sasaki ...

Unlike past outbreaks, those future epidemics would sweep across a country that, having been free of these diseases for so long, is no longer equipped to fight them. “Yeah,” Offit said when I ...