Middle-grade star Jenny Pearson is to move to younger readers with a pirate-themed “swashbuckling” adventure series for Usborne, aimed at ages seven to nine. Rebecca Hill, Usborne fiction ...

The revision follows a global debate — often called the “reading wars” — about how best to teach children to read. One camp advocates for phonics, which focuses on the relationship between ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

KEITHVILLE, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Chimp Haven recently welcomed retired New Mexico Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) chimps. The final troop is among the oldest and most fragile to ever enter the ...

Humans are not the only species to combine concepts to build more complex meaning, a new study found. Bonobo chimpanzees combine calls in a manner similar to how humans structure words to make ...

Murray, Kentucky and Newport, Kentucky were recognized as two of the best small towns in the nation by USA TODAY 10BEST Readers' Choice Awards. Winners were selected through a nomination process ...

President Donald Trump wished all Americans a happy Easter in two separate messages on Sunday, with one directed at "Radical Left Lunatics" he claims are trying to derail his administration’s ...

The world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary, Chimp Haven, opens its doors twice a year, including Saturday. Tickets for the chance are going fast. Chimpanzees lolling about point to a success story ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would mandate the method of the "science of learning" which is a phonics-based teaching ... have each implemented the "science of reading" within the last five to eight ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...