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Third-year marketing student Ming Xia recently launched Booksmart, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making textbooks ...

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An associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has publicly called former President Donald Trump a racist and ...

We've been studying them for millennia, so how far have we come?

Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help ...