with the hope that children will learn to read them on sight. There are about 300 of these high-frequency words that make up three-quarters of the words in print in English, said Shanahan ...

Stargazers spied an unusual sight on Friday night, as Venus appeared beside a crescent moon. The planet could be seen with the naked eye in locations lucky enough to have clear skies and ...

If You Know You Know (IYKYK), but just in case you don’t: In 1976, a clever public relations director at Lake Superior State University (LSSU) started the first “List of Words Banished from ...