Tipton and her co-author, the director of Florida State University’s Florida Center for Reading Research, Nicole Patton-Terry, argue that academics and schools of education need to “build a field of ...

Mounting evidence suggests that regularly cozying up with a book can increase brain and mental health, improve literacy and math skills, and even slow cognitive decline. What's more, fiction seems to ...

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You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Reading didn’t come easily to Aarica Phillips as a child. She is now in her 28th year as a school librarian, a role that ...

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Many people enjoy cuddling up on the couch with a book as a way to wind down. But people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), especially children, might find reading much more ...

There's a Japanese word that describes your pile of unread books: tsundoku. It dates back to the 1800s but feels especially relevant today — after all, we're reading less than we used to. Every ...

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