Christine Ayala

Nearly 11.7 million people either signed up or re-enrolled for insurance coverage under the U.S. health care reform law by mid-March, which is considerably more than the 9.1 million predicted by the Obama administration.

An important milestone was reached when the last person known to have Ebola in Liberia was discharged from medical care earlier this month, just months after the disease caused bodies to pile up in the streets.

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Rain.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Cameron Turner, the team leader for Agricultural Water Conservation Programs at the Texas Water Development Board.

In this week’s Q&A, we interview Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz, associate professor of bilingual education and diversity studies at Texas Tech University.

Blended learning, the concurrent application of technology and teacher expertise in a classroom, is catching on in a few states.

Efforts to update No Child Left Behind have ground to a halt in the U.S. House of Representatives. Few lawmakers were willing to get behind a bill — renamed the Student Success Act — fraught with deregulation and defunding.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence and schools superintendent Glenda Ritz have sparked a firestorm after last-minute plans to implement a 12-hour state test to third- through eighth-grade students went public.

Six middle school girls from East Texas visited the state Capitol last week, where they lobbied for a bill to foster improved implementation of dating violence programs in schools.

In this week’s Bookshelf, our content partner Kirkus Reviews highlights Our Kids.