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This article from the Washington Post discusses the problem of aliteracy. Much more prevalent than illiteracy, it is also more insidious because unlike teaching someone how to read, which is fairly straightforward, how do you teach someone to LIKE to read? This article contains statistics on aliteracy in America and interesting ways in which aliteracy has changed the way our society functions.

The Virginia Department of Education has unveiled a tool that teachers and parents can use to select books that interest young readers and help them improve their skills.

As health-care costs skyrocket, a down-to-earth approach to healing is emerging, complementing high-tech medicine with high-touch arts.

Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" and other works, was artist-in-residence recently at the University of Maryland at College Park. This is part of a conversation he had with reporter Valerie Strauss about young people and literature.

In a detailed look at nearly 30 years of research on how television, music, movies and other media affect the lives of children and adolescents, a new study released today found an array of negative health effects linked to greater use.

First in a series of occasional short takes on unusual courses in local schools.

More than three-fourths of young women, those ages 18-29 and known as Generation Y, want incoming President Barack Obama to make civil rights and racial justice top priorities of his administration, a survey says.

Brain scans are helping neurologists and other scientists develop new learning techniques.

Children and teenagers who play violent video games show increased physical aggression months afterward, according to new research that adds another layer of evidence to the continuing debate over the video-game habits of the youngest generation.

Traditional calculations of graduation rates ignore students who succeed in graduating but don't do it in four years.

Article about the intersection of arts and "core subjects."

About the importance of music education.

First in an occasional series exploring variations in how popular courses are taught.

Parents and students in a growing number of schools can track fluctuations in a grade-point average from the nearest computer in real time, a ritual that can become as addictive as watching political polls or a stock-market index.

Many patients misunderstand the written questions American doctors have them answer before physical exams, a finding that calls into question the usefulness of these screening tools, new reports say.