Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

If old-fashioned books are too boring for you, ebook distributor OverDrive wants to gamify them with interactive elements and video game-inspired achievements and badges for kids who finish their ...

In Irish writer Nuala O’Faolain’s memoir “Are You Somebody” she recounts being asked to list the 10 more important events of her life (she was participating in a self-exploration workshop) and the ...

Less style guide than extended meditation on the sentence as written communication’s basic building block, this is a heartfelt but sometimes overwrought affair. Moran, an English and Cultural History ...

“Diverse Elements,” an exhibition currently running at Studio B through Dec. 2, brings together the work of two painters and two sculptors in congenial dichotomies of medium and subject matter. The ...

The pandemic has increased the amount of reading young children do in digital formats, and a new research analysis suggests parent and teacher behavior can mean the difference in whether e-books help ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- There's no "LOL" -- computer message-speak for "laughing out loud" -- in this book. "U" is a letter, not a pronoun. In St. Joseph's public high schools, instructors aren't "JK" -- ...

Many years ago I was taught the elements of a great presentation. Because they are emblazoned in my brain, they are second nature to me. Over the past year, it has become apparent that many of these ...

When Apple released iOS 26.1 on Nov. 3, the company introduced a setting to your iPhone that lets you adjust some Liquid Glass elements, like your Notification Center and some search bars. But there's ...