At a time when there’s a national debate over critical race theory and how much of America’s worst moments should be taught in American schools, a new book seeks to provide some context for how ...

Did you know Penn has a library? Multiple, even. Libraries whose manuscripts span from 1900 BC to the glossy edition of books fresh off the shelves. While our demonstrative and often frivolous campus ...

Mark Bauerlein (“Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind,” The Chronicle Review, September 19) writes that when reading Web pages, students’ eyes jump “around chasing keywords, bullet points, visuals, and ...

Reading without a purpose leads to lesser comprehension and long-term memory. Many students who read this way find it difficult to participate in class discussions and do as well on their exams as ...

The two 5th grade volumes of McGraw-Hill’s Treasures reading series at first glance look remarkably similar. Both include, for instance, a nonfiction selection about a scientific mission to Antarctica ...

Seventy-seven percent of students who said they read for pleasure reported not having enough time for “recreational reading” because of demanding in-class reading, according to a College & Research ...

A Texas State Board of Education panel approved 89 new history and social studies textbooks for use Friday, after adopting "hundreds of pages" in last-minute changes, the Texas Tribune reports. Some ...

Hitting the books can be a serious hit in the wallet these days. Already grappling with skyrocketing tuition and fees, college students also must contend with triple-digit inflation on the price of ...

To someone passing by, it may look like the students in Blue Lake Elementary’s morning learning lab are playing computer games. Dozens of students sit down at computers or iPads before school starts ...