Despite decades of legislation meant to boost children’s reading levels, literacy scores have remained relatively stagnant across the U.S. over the past 30 years. Educators, policymakers and parents ...

Many professors have witnessed a troubling trend in recent years: College students are struggling with reading more than ever. This isn't just about preferring Netflix to novels; it's a fundamental ...

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Americans seem to have given up on reading books. Surveys show that almost 40 percent read no books at all over the course of a year. Just 27 percent read between one and four books each year. Serious ...

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The Public Theater's world premiere of Antigone (This Play I Read in High School), by Anna Ziegler and directed by Tyne Rafaeli, opens tonight. The reviews are in for the starry production. See what ...

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“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

More than six months after she was found not guilty of murder, Karen Read remains embroiled in civil lawsuits, and new court filings indicate that a recent mistake could be a new flashpoint in the ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

To make it easier to pull a .csv or .txt file directly into Excel without having to deal with Power Query, Microsoft is introducing two new import functions. Microsoft is making two new Import ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...