The legislation, which emphasizes “evidence-based” literacy instruction, follows decreasing proficiency rates among third ...

Read along with the Book Review this summer: Can you check off five items before fall arrives? (This year, there are prizes!) By The New York Times Books Staff Welcome, dear readers, to our second ...

When Bronx teacher Jessica Beck began teaching two decades ago, middle schoolers in her English class often read 20 books a year. Under the city’s new, mandated literacy curriculum, however, she’s ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. No story has caught the imagination of education reformers this decade quite like the “Mississippi miracle.” ...

As a former English teacher with a background in literacy education, I’ve seen how imperative it is that kids have a solid reading foundation. At the same time, as a mom to three young kids, I feel ...

For decades, Congress has largely waited for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act before making sweeping changes to federal education policy. That restraint now appears to ...

Reading is great for your mental health and well-being. There are also benefits to making it a daily habit, which you can achieve by setting goals and creating supporting routines. Great escapes into ...

My friend texted me a heartfelt life update, and I left him on read for three days. He forgave me. But should he have? I am a bad friend. I know this because two Saturdays ago, my friend Jack texted ...

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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 ...

If kids don’t learn to love books from their parents when they’re small, they’re less likely to grow up to be dedicated readers. Why is that a problem? And what specifically should parents do to make ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...