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This week, Boston public schools issued report cards to kindergarteners. For the first time, 5-year-olds are being evaluated based on literacy, math and various academic skills. Debated for years, the new policy is getting poor marks from some teachers and parents. NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports.

A lawful permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. for 50 years was detained because of a decades-old conviction amid tougher immigration enforcement at airports and border crossings.

It's an extra-long weekend, so why not fill it up with a trip to the movie house? WEMU's David Fair and Michigan Theater Foundation executive director Russ Collins meet up to chat about the latest films and special screenings coming your way this Memorial Day weekend.

As we say goodbye to 2024, let's also bid farewell to some less-than-ideal money habits: impulse purchases, out-of-control credit card debt and the trap of lifestyle creep.

Music producer Jack Antonoff, famous for his work with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, and Lorde, draws a card from the Wild Card deck.

Theodor Seuss Geisel died in 1991, after authoring dozens of books that became bedtime rituals the world over. Schoolchildren will celebrate Dr. Seuss' 100th birthday today with special events across the country. Morning Edition offers a special birthday card to Dr. Seuss with a verse written by Hart Seely, a reporter with the Syracuse Post-Standard:

William Cohan describes the company's meltdown in a new book, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street. Cohan talks about the fall of Bear Stearns and one of the figures in the center of it all: then-Chairman Jimmy Cayne.

For 20 years, Shoebox has brought a quirky irreverence to the once-sentimental realm of greeting cards. Editor Sarah Tobabin and writer Dan Taylor talk to Robert Siegel about the tricky business of humor and the rejected idea that a writer can't quite let go of: the "funny, but no."