These anthologies are specifically created to teach reading, and generally feature excerpts from fiction and nonfiction books ...

Timothy Rimke reads during Casey Cuny's English class at Valencia High School in Santa Clarita, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. Jae C. Hong / AP Ask a high school student about the last book they ...

Reading levels dropped to historic lows during the pandemic. Now parents, teachers and tech companies are hoping AI can help solve America’s literacy crisis. America’s literacy challenge has been ...

WASHINGTON — A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders’ scores dropping to their lowest level in more than 20 years, ...

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 ...

Edward Stratemeyer had a plan to get American children reading. An ambitious paper merchant in Newark, New Jersey, he’d ...

The experiment was simple; so too, you may have thought, was the task. Students of literature at two American universities were given the first paragraphs of “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens and asked ...

Public schools in Chinle and other Native communities are on track to out-perform students statewide, officials say.