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‘Which Presidents Have Seen UFOS? Yep, It’s More Than one,” a Politco.com article by Garrett Graff that ran last month, described how most U.S. presidents since Truman have been interested

See what's coming up in the Amarillo area this week and beyond, including fun events at Starlight Ranch.

West Texas A&M University released information on its fall Distinguished Series lineup which will feature five nationally known speakers beginning on Monday.

Despite growing momentum toward reform, many literacy experts warn that many serious obstacles, from the ubiquity of balanced literacy, which avoids phonics in favor of fostering a love of reading, to inadequate teacher training and the proliferation of screens, lie ahead before a transformation in American reading instruction is likely to take root. 

Wed., Jun. 21, 2023 at 7 p.m. | Explore the science of reading and ways to help ready your child for this complex task.

Reading on screens is the primary way many of us will engage in literacy now. But we have to think about the medium as a message and develop a balanced diet in terms of how we read, if we are to retain the benefits of each.

Technology is changing how we read—and that means we need to rethink how we teach.

Digital texts can be useful for teaching certain foundational skills, but they do not equally develop cognitive patience and slower, deeper processes in the brain that serve comprehension, retention and focus.

The Nov. 22, 2022 episode of ‘The Ezra Klein Show’

Apparently, despite the recent refurbishment, Stroud Green and Haringey library is constantly under threat of closure because not enough people borrow books fr…