Education is in desperate need of reform — and startups and nonprofits are leading the way.
One organization that is tackling literacy development with an innovative solution is CommonLit. Founded by Michelle Brown after her experience teaching 7th grade English at a high-poverty school in rural Mississippi, the organization aims to make important literary works more easily accessible to students and teachers around the country.
CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) — Elite Iraqi special forces began their push Monday into Fallujah, expecting to encounter the stiffest resistance yet in the campaign to free territory from the Islamic State group.
The city 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad has been under militant control longer than any other part of Iraq, and IS fighters have had more than two years to dig in. Networks of tunnels like those found in other IS-held territory have already been discovered in its northeastern outskirts.
