There's some good news for book lovers in the Northeast Kingdom.

Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca discusses the department's change to a state agency, and Senator Bernie Sanders looks at the future of rural post offices.

As part of VPR's weeklong series, Vermont Reads Bull Run, we look at how war is written about in literature, and what we can learn about the experience and the truths of war by reading about it.

Newscast: Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 8:35 a.m.

Bennington College's new, $20-million Center for the Advancement of Public Action opened in September with an ambitious goal: to create an education focused on the world's most pressing problems and the knowledge it will take to solve them.

New test results show that Vermont eighth-graders scored above the national average in science, but just 43 percent of them are proficient or better in the topic.

Newscast: Wednesday, May 9, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

Representative Peter Welch has been speaking out about what he says is the necessity of keeping interest rates on Stafford Loans from doubling, and the greater issues of student loan debt and college affordability.

Newscast: Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 12:04 p.m.

A group of immigrant students from Burlington High School testified at the Vermont Statehouse today about what they feel is racial inequality at their school.