Lucy Calkins’s curriculum was meant to bring phonics to struggling students. But its publication has been stalled after a debate over whether to accommodate conservative state laws. By Dana Goldstein ...

Mark Twain, meet Eminem and the Mummy. Houghton Mifflin Co., one of the nation’s oldest independent trade and educational book publishers whose authors have included Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne, is ...

The beginning of the end of the dream that was once Vivendi Universal SA began yesterday, as the troubled media giant named the first of its many businesses it would put up for sale to reduce its ...