For the past year, Peter Stapleton, a Solana Beach 17-year-old, has been leading a group of local women in learning computers, teaching the valuable skills entirely in Spanish. The Cathedral Catholic ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

Gina Young is an accomplished finance writer who has written for publications including SuperMoney, Examiner, Lexington Law, Talk Markets, and CreditRepair.com. Throughout her career in finance, Gina ...

In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and ...

Every parent worries about their child’s future. Olly Hawes, a theatre performer whose new show, Old Fat F**k Up, follows the escapades of a middle-aged, middle-class dad fretting about what legacy he ...

“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 ...