The good news: It’s a buyer’s market and interest rates are down. The bad news: It’s tougher to get credit and qualify for an affordable mortgage. In this volatile market, potential homebuyers need to arm themselves with as much information as they can get...

Building strong, independent reading in grades K-6 is one of the best ways to develop lifelong readers, and giving children options for free reading promotes personal ownership over literacy growth. In Personal Reading, Rona Flippo guides you through the process of aligning each student in your classroom with selections that are not only appropriate for them but whose content will excite them into opening new books...

The application process for residency programs is both challenging and confusing. Without guidance, it is difficult to match up with your perfect residency program. But knowing how to choose recommenders, create stellar personal statements and letters of recommendation, and craft a compelling CV may be just what you need to help you match up at your ideal residency program...

Three new doctors—all women—struggle to balance professional ambitions and personal relationships, triumphs and crises, uncertainties and decisions, through one pressure-packed day and the first year of their careers in medicine Each year, on the third Thursday in March, more than 15,000 graduating medical students exult, despair, and endure Match Day: the decision of a controversial computer algorithm, which matches students with hospital residencies in every field of medicine...