WASHINGTON — A decadelong slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

Naomi S. Baron does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The judge presiding over the Karen Read trial gave jurors a revised verdict slip on Tuesday afternoon, following confusion from the panel about the first slip they were given, which prompted a ...

Closing arguments were made on Friday. With the jury now deliberating, the second sensational trial of Karen Read -- accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend in 2022 -- is nearing a ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Jurors in the Karen Read trial were dismissed early Wednesday for a long weekend after hearing from a neurosurgeon who detailed injuries he saw to John O'Keefe.The start of testimony was delayed by ...

An often-ignored type of cell in the brain plays a dynamic and surprisingly complex role in our ability to process information, according to new research. An often-ignored type of cell in the brain ...

Matt Schooley is a digital producer at CBS Boston. He has been a member of the WBZ news team for the last decade. Read is accused of hitting and killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John ...

After months of contentious pre-trial hearings and a painstaking jury selection process that took 10 days, Karen Read’s second trial begins in earnest with opening statements Tuesday. In criminal ...

A former adjunct professor at Bentley College, Karen Read faces up to life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder in the death of her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors ...