Last season in Aoki’s first year, UR struggled in nonconference games, and went 13-11 in the A-10 (advanced to A-10 tournament final) to close 27-32. The Spiders’ early-season success in 2025 ...

Alabama invested heavily in training on the science of reading, then known as phonics, in the early 2000s, and scores rose. Then the Great Recession hit, teachers and literacy coaches got laid off ...