Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

We hear it all the time: AI is changing the world. It’s an easy thing to say, but when the hype is this loud, it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s just noise. Experts and opportunists start to ...

Reading is a highly valuable skill that allows humans to acquire new knowledge, pursue an education and complete a wide range of real-world tasks. Many past psychology and neuroscience studies set out ...

IN an era dominated by digital media and rapidly advancing technology, reading printed books is increasingly viewed as a ...

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 ...

Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Nearly a half ...

Readers on reading: Responses to David Brooks’s column about the state of literacy in America. To the Editor: Re “We’re Just Not as Good at Thinking Anymore,” by David Brooks (column, April 11): As a ...

Reading, once a daily activity for many people, seems to be losing ground today. Over the past twenty years, regular reading practice has dropped dramatically, revealing a profound cultural ...

George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to restate the case for what may be literacy instruction’s richest but ...

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 ...