This passage 2 is read by students to test their speaking skills: "When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light ...

SOUTHERN ISRAEL – Tali Hadad is a 49-year-old mother of six and a kindergarten teacher whose days would normally be spent teaching basic reading, math and social skills to 5-year-olds.

And the worst was yet to come. The captives were about to embark on the infamous Middle Passage, so called because it was the middle leg of a three-part voyage -- a voyage that began and ended in ...

Then answer the retrieval questions in the quiz below the text. You can go back and read the passage as many times as you like to find the answers. Mr Simmons was the caretaker of Dillon Road ...

Protestants deny that good works can be meritorious (i.e., rewarded by God), but St. Augustine taught that our merit was merely God “crowning his own gifts.” That’s what the Catholic Church ...

Maggie Smith, 89, a scene-stealing British actor who won Oscars for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and “California Suite,” later enchanting audiences as a professorial witch in the Harry ...

I was going through the bag, and that’s when I noticed his preschool picture." Natalie pulled out the photo and scanned it to see what her husband looked like at that age. She was shocked to see ...

They then set sail for Caribbean and the Americas. This journey across the Atlantic was called the Middle Passage. Slave ships usually took between six and eleven weeks to complete the voyage.

Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called -- the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services has set a goal that at least 95% of children in kindergarten will have gotten two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, a threshold ...

Schools report children starting in Reception in nappies, and recent surveys of schools and nurseries have shown high levels of concern around speech and language The new report sets out proposals to ...

The bill could become the first federal law to address hazing. Parents whose children died as a result of college hazing incidents are speaking out after the U.S. House of Representatives on ...