That's the novel approach about a half-dozen Des Moines Public Schools are taking to get kids to read — using vending ...

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Sociologist Eve L. Ewing joins The Excerpt to discuss her new book “Original Sins,” which argues that schools enforce racial hierarchies.

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Milwaukee author Ebony Hanyes says her latest book, Dear Black Girls: I See You, is dedicated to Black girls, “offering them ...

A sprawling Yiddish-language epic looks back on the lost world of Jewish life in the shtetls of early 20th-century Europe.

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- The Utica City School District has introduced an innovative approach to encourage reading. Their new 'Utica Reads' initiative is a library without walls or due dates. Beginning April 28 ...