Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, just 30% of eighth-graders were proficient in reading, down from 34% in ...

Some parents are having trouble making sense of their kids' reading assignments while schools are closed. The explanation is a deeply entrenched by misguided approach to teaching comprehension.

The summer I graduated from college, I read more books than I had read in the previous eight years combined. I read constantly. I will never forget the pure joy of sitting on the beach reading “Tender ...

Henley Nicodin's mom set a strict deadline for her summer reading assignment this year: On July 31 before the stroke of midnight, you will read it cover to cover. No slacking off until the start of ...