The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

They say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, but around these parts, we know nothing tops the launch of the annual Popsugar Reading Challenge — our take on a virtual book club that ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. What’s going on? This debate over ...

Before Sebastian Castillo cracks open a book on the bus, he has an intrusive thought: Should he tap the stranger next to him on the shoulder and clarify that yes, he’s starting this book on Page 1, ...

After nearly two decades, the classic kids' show Reading Rainbow is back — with a new host and a new digital format, but with the same mission of encouraging children to "take a look, it's in a book." ...

Young readers can once again be like butterflies in the sky. “Reading Rainbow,” a show that previously aired on PBS and was hosted by the beloved actor LeVar Burton, is returning nearly two decades ...

The Education Department has released a new Nation's Report Card. High school students, especially 12th graders, are reading and learning math and science at historic lows, according to a new report ...

When was the last time you curled up with a good book or flipped through the pages of a magazine? If it’s been a while, you’re not alone: The number of Americans who read for fun has plummeted over ...

Reading for pleasure in the U.S. fell 40% over two decades, the study found. Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past ...

A sweeping new study from the University of Florida and University College London has found that daily reading for pleasure in the United States has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 years — ...