The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

SAN ANTONIO – The State Board of Education is considering what titles to add to a required reading list for grades K-12. During a State Board of Education meeting last Wednesday, Nov. 19, the Deputy ...

Texas will soon become the first state to adopt a mandatory list of books that must be taught at each grade level in classrooms statewide. The Republican-controlled State Board of Education on ...

They say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, but around these parts, we know nothing tops the launch of the annual Popsugar Reading Challenge — our take on a virtual book club that ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...

Mississippi has improved from 49th to ninth in fourth-grade reading results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in the past ten years. pololia - stock.adobe.com A miracle defies the ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...

READING, PA — This wasn’t always a place that people could call home. “It was nothing like this. It was completely different. Walls were different. We had to do a full conversion. So, from what it was ...

Every summer, former president Barack Obama shares his reading list—and yes, they’re books he really read. Eric Schultz, a senior advisor to Obama, told Esquire, “These lists come from him. This is ...

Pulling up to The Henson, a boutique hotel in the Catskills, it hit me what I was about to do: spend 48 hours with 14 strangers reading a book out loud. I’ve dreaded reading aloud since my elementary ...