A program in Detroit is helping people fill in the gaps in their education and get a job. The St. Vincent and Sarah Fischer ...

Isabel Orozco‘s fierce determination started after she lost chances when she was young. Orozco was pulled from school in California in third grade, and then not homeschooled in any consistent way, she ...

Retirement doesn't just end your career — it can dismantle the invisible cognitive scaffolding that kept your brain sharp for ...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan was found guilty of conspiracy, bribery and wire fraud and sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison. What additional specific ethics reforms need to be enacted in ...

Nearly one in five U.S. adults reads at or below a third grade level, and a long running Tulsa program aims to help close that gap.

A Baxter County woman who has been jailed for three years was sentenced to time served Wednesday after a federal judge learned of horrific abuse she suffered as a child.

The Detroit Public Schools Community District’s 2025 graduation rate of more than 83% was the highest since the state began ...

The rate was 83% in 2025, a nearly 5 percentage point increase over the previous year. It was the highest since the state ...

When Doina Lavoie-Gonci and other volunteers with the Old Lyme Refugee Resettlement Committee learned about the plight of a pregnant mother of three from Honduras whose husband had been deported, ...

No degree? That's not a problem with these jobs.

The County library system is looking for volunteer tutors for its adult literacy program.