American students are doing worse in reading and a recent study found that the number of Americans who read for pleasure is ...

The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.

English can be a challenging language to learn, even for native speakers. One of the best ways to become familiar with a new language is by studying that country's literature. Comic books, in ...

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

More than 1,100 of you wrote to tell us about the books that broadened your horizons, that you kept through every move, that ...

I emphatically agree with “Without Reading, There Is No Learning,” by Tim Donahue (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 25). On the first day of my freshman writing class last semester at the University of ...

Reading is in trouble. Multiple studies in multiple places seem to be showing the same thing. Adults are reading less.