Direct Instruction programs have long drawn criticism from educators who say they limit teacher autonomy. But surveys suggest ...

In the 1960s, the United States government wanted to find the best way to teach kids who were behind. A federal study called ...

Willie Mae King remembers standing on a stage in a red and white outfit, celebrating the end of third grade with her classmates. “I remember everything from that time,” said King, now 64. “I loved ...

An analysis of videos, 911 calls, fire department records and dispatch logs conducted by MPR News and APM Reports raises questions about whether the federal agency that mortally wounded Renee Macklin ...

Sequel Youth & Family Services, a company that once sought to dominate the youth behavioral health industry, is facing growing financial turmoil amid new allegations of mistreating children. The ...

For more than 40 years, federal law has required schools to identify and evaluate students with dyslexia and to provide them with an appropriate education. But in many states across the country that's ...

Violence was a dark feature of law enforcement in Minnesota's largest county 20 years ago. Amy Klobuchar saw it firsthand as the Hennepin County Attorney, though she kept a distance. Over eight years ...

Two weeks after Jacob Wetterling was abducted in St. Joseph in October 1989, an older man walked into the very Tom Thumb store where the 11-year-old had rented a video the night he went missing. The ...

The number of people on the nation's sex-offender registries has exploded to hundreds of thousands. But researchers question the registries' effectiveness, note their inconsistencies and suggest they ...

The first and third Tuesday of every month, Lola and Archie Flowers make the two-and-a-half hour round trip to see their son. On April 3, they woke up early, and by 7 a.m. they were driving west from ...

In September 2021, a 4-year-old girl’s babysitter caught her touching another child inappropriately. “I asked her why she was doing that,” the babysitter texted the girl’s mother, “and she told me ...