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When nearly half of PennsylvaniaĢƵ third-graders can’t read at grade level, we don’t have an education gap; we have an emergency. It doesn’t matter if a child lives in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia or a small town like Cecil or McDonald – if they can’t read by third grade, the odds of ...

Saturday marked a meaningful anniversary for one Pennsylvania family. A year ago, Bryan Hagerich was finally released from wrongful detainment in Turks and Caicos and reunited with his loved ones. Bryan was among several Americans targeted by the Turks government after accidentally having ...

Over the past 20 years I have come to know many Ukrainians: friends I made during my visits to their country; journalists and professionals visiting the United States I helped to host; and the refugees I have been teaching as a volunteer tutor of English as a Second Language. I share with them ...

“All that glitters is not gold,” goes the aphorism made most famous by William Shakespeare in his “The Merchant of Venice.” And a researcher at the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy says we should keep that phrase in mind when it comes to the claimed economic impact Pittsburgh can ...

OP-ED: The gift that keeps on giving

I watched LydiaĢƵ face as she pinched her nose to see what happened when she said the letters “m” and “n.” She and my other second-graders couldn’t produce the two sounds, and her expression spoke volumes: Her nose was vital for her to read. The Pennsylvania Pilot Dyslexia ...

They move among us nearly every day of the year in the Laurel Highlands. Perhaps they’re sitting in the booth next to you as you sip your morning coffee in a local café. Maybe they’re shopping next to you at the cute boutique store. Or they could be zipping past you on a bicycle on the ...