As summer approaches, the Maricopa Public Library is preparing to launch its Summer Reading Program. Library manager Angela Howell calls this “our biggest event of the year.” The eight-week program ...

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course ... standardized reading-comprehension tests. Antero Garcia, a Stanford education professor ...

At the same time, we need to get to the root of the problem, which is not about book lengths but the larger educational system. We can’t let tests control how teachers teach: Close reading may ...

by Robert Burton TOPICS: WASHINGTON (7News) — This week on Reading with Robert ... “The underlying theme of the book is how Black boys and Black girls are 4 to 6 times more likely to be ...

Only 14 percent of students say they read for fun every day, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress ... to not being introduced to books that interest them.

The National Council of Teachers of English acknowledged the shift in a 2022 statement on media education, saying: “The time has come to decenter book reading and essay-writing as the pinnacles of ...

SAN ANTONIO (June 14, 2021) – Children ages five and up are invited to spend their summer with Spurs Give taking part in interactive educational ... books, log the number of minutes they spend ...