American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a ...

Americans seem to have given up on reading books.

Nobody got into their career expecting to spend this much time reading documents. Yet here we are, and the pile keeps growing ...

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 ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...