In some inner-city schools, less than half of kids are reading or doing math at grade-level proficiency. Many high school grads can't read their diplomas. As an economist, I would submit that this is ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country, as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16- to 24-year-olds reading at the lowest literacy ...

As libraries work to upgrade and diversify offerings in the digital age, many have to carefully navigate publisher ...

Reading and math scores are abysmal across the country as national testing results keep documenting. Illiteracy rates are rising: The number of 16-to-24 year olds reading at the lowest literacy levels ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, undertaken with far-flung friends during the pandemic ...

Instead of listening to grandad’s gravy burps when Christmas dinner is winding down, there’s nothing like a joke about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to perk things up. The former Prince had all his ...

Competition among retailers for a slice of the $129 billion U.S. beauty and personal care market is fiercer than ever due to the ease of e-commerce and the advice shoppers seek on social media instead ...

This is what mattered to me this year out of the small patch of that million-book forest I managed to walk through.