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Seventy percent of children in the U.S. don’t read proficiently in third grade. “But what we know at Scholastic from kids’ ...

Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers. Test your knowledge of them with this short quiz.

Many waiters, bartenders and other restaurant staffers rely on tips to get by. But in some states, tips account for up to a ...

Lake City Elementary 5th graders are getting a lesson centered on the electoral college process of presidential elections.

The map finds that Rotherham had the highest number of new referrals to children’s specialist mental health services (182 per 1,000 compared to a national average of 70).

T o fly from the south to the north of Nigeria takes only a couple of hours. Yet in one way, it is like going back in time.

Doctors and parents are warning about a rise in walking pneumonia among US children - a year after a frightening outbreak overseas. The infection, also known as 'white lung' pneumonia ...

Almost a third of children in parts of England are obese by the time they start secondary school, figures revealed today. Thirty-one per cent of Year 6 pupils in Knowsley, Merseyside, are classed ...

"Entire houses have disappeared," says a local mayor in Spain's flood-battered Valencia region. "We don't know if there were ...

Following recent cases of food poisoning among learners across the country, the Gauteng Department of Education on Friday ...