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

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

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

Learning and developing as a reader are more complicated in a language the reader is simultaneously learning to speak and understand. This challenge is faced by millions of English learners (ELs) who ...

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, ...

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 ...

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