The school reform program, first developed in the 1980s, has been declining in popularity for the past two decades — even ...

Even though EdReports is only a decade old, it has quickly become a powerful force in the educational publishing industry. Many schools rely on its reviews when they decide which reading programs to ...

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the past 50 years, it has hollowed out many ...

In spite of years of pressure from advocates, access to emergency contraceptives remains difficult for women who rely on the health care systems run by or on behalf of their tribal nations. APM ...

The Spurr oil platform stopped pumping crude from beneath the silty ocean water outside Anchorage in 1992. The platform, built in Cook Inlet during Alaska’s first oil boom in the 1960s, was losing ...

The educational publisher raked in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue during the 2010s selling reading programs based on a disproven theory. The company now faces financial fallout, as schools ...

Pressure is mounting on two universities to change the way they train on-the-job educators to teach reading. The Ohio State University in Columbus and Lesley University near Boston both run prominent ...

Illinois hospitals routinely skirt one of the nation’s strongest laws protecting victims of sexual assault.

“Flipping a coin would actually be better” for identifying struggling readers, one researcher said of the test created by influential curriculum developers Fountas and Pinnell.

Graphite is a critical ingredient in the batteries needed to power America’s electric vehicle revolution. But every ounce of it is imported. A proposed mine in a remote part of Alaska would change ...

Many of Sequel’s behavioral health treatment centers are sold or closed following abuse allegations. But some facilities might have new life under a different name and one of the original founders.