The Literacy Project is being supported by two local theater productions, "The Belle of Amherst" and "Take Ten." ...

One in four young adults across the U.S. is functionally illiterate – yet more than half earned high school diplomas, ...

In 2024, Solano County Library reported that 23 percent of Solano County adults read at or below a 3rd grade reading level.

New research finds that declining health is not inevitable as we age. It can also be a time to get healthier and stronger. When Florene Shuber was around 82 years old, she noticed that sometimes she’d ...

In his new book, “Aging While Black: A Radical Reimagining of Aging and Race in America,” Raymond Jetson, a former state lawmaker and health department official from Louisiana, says the United States ...

Andrea Asuaje is a senior radio producer with “Under the Radar with Callie Crossley.” Prior to her work at GBH, she was a senior producer and show runner at Rococo Punch; and a reporter, producer and ...

Indiana education officials hope a new strategy will boost middle schoolers’ reading skills – an area that statewide data suggests 31% of sixth, seventh and eighth graders struggle with, a news ...

Newly released data from a crucial national test revealed historically low scores in two major subjects for 12th graders across the country, further emphasizing that U.S. students have struggled to ...

A new program in Maryland is working to improve the health of older adults as Americans live longer, independent lives.The University of Maryland School of Public Health and the University of Maryland ...

Kelli Lehto, Associate Professor of Neuropsychiatric Genomics at the University of Tartu, will spend the next five years investigating the causes of ADHD-related issues in adults. She will use genetic ...

As kids pack their backpacks for the school year, too many will carry more than school supplies — they’ll carry the weight of the economic stress of their parents and the adults around them. Whether ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday restricted access to COVID-19 vaccines by ending their emergency authorization and refining eligibility standards to exclude most healthy ...