Second-graders sat on stage in front of their smartphone-weilding parents. Some giggled, and some couldn’t quite keep up with the cadence the more confident children used, as they recited the Paul ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly listed the number of performers who could qualify for prizes of $1,000-$20,000, plus money for their schools, in the national Poetry Out Loud ...

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

More than 50 years after her grandmother saw the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famed “I Have a Dream” speech, 9-year-old Leontyn Gbegan spent her Sunday morning in a room overlooking the ...