"When it comes to actual ability to be able to read grade-level text, it's shockingly low," said reading tutor Nicki Pratti.

Local volunteers gave away about 7,000 new and used books, in English and Spanish, at the “Free-For-All” book fair at the ...

Advocates in New York, where Parton’s Imagination Library is available in 79 locations, want Gov. Hochul to take the program statewide.

A restaurant owner was disheartened with children that spend time on phones at family dinners. She started an in-house ...