The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

One of the key learning outcomes of university education in general, and liberal arts programmes,  in particular, is that ...

What’s the best way to teach reading to beginners in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, or home school and how can we do it better? Both research and practice are offering a novel idea: teach kids ...

Indian students aspiring to study abroad are performing better on the SAT than ever before. Year-on-year data shows a steady ...

Chetan Majahan, who runs the Himalayan Writing Retreat, on how to beat the screen and return to the world of great writing.

A strong foundation in both writing and reading is critical to your success at Western Michigan University. Before you meet with your academic advisor for your one-on-one advising meeting, you should ...

Indulge me and say the following out loud: Students should read fewer books and write less expository prose. Did that feel right? I doubt it. But that’s the message the National Council of Teachers of ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? It isn’t easy for educators to teach reading, and it isn’t easy for students to learn the skill, either. But, in ...

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...

I grew up in the days of the SNES and the Sega Megadrive. Even then, furious debates would rage about the harm (or lack thereof) that video games would inflict on growing children. A few decades later ...