“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

The University of Pennsylvania’s student-run campus newspaper was mocked online for a “year in review” story highlighting prominent alumni who “stepped into the national spotlight” — including alleged ...

For three days they scoured the desert, searching the red dirt in Western Australia’s Goldfields for a “needle in a haystack”. With no showers, no toilets and no reprieve from the heat, PhD student ...