Self-empowerment is the reason Brett Rinebold became a SMART Recovery support group facilitator. The vibrant 34-year-old has been through addiction and recovery. She’s experienced the fallout of ...

Kathleen Ratcliff, executive director for Upstream Prevention, discusses substance use disorder during the “Responding to Addiction” workshop in 2024 at the Greenwood Public Library. Upstream ...

The pandemic recovery has not just stalled; students in most grades are losing academic ground, according to new national data. The testing group NWEA has tracked academic gaps and sputtering student ...

Schools have tried a combination of moves—including in- and after-school tutoring, an emphasis on social-emotional well-being, and summer school —to get learning levels back to where they were before ...

To help education gradually continue through flexible and compassionate learning approaches, the Department of Education (DepEd) formally partnered with PLDT Inc., Smart Communications, Inc., and the ...