The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said tests taken last year by 15-year-olds in 91 countries and economies revealed a big drop in scores compared with a decade earlier.

Alt: John Locke from Lost smiling with a slice of orange peel over his teeth and a large scar across is right eye.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.

Public support for trans and gender-diverse people is declining, and that decline is being driven by political and media discourse.