Middle and high school teachers are “wonderful at getting most of our kids excited about reading,” Chancellor Samuels said.

READING, Pa. - Reading police officials say they are investigating a possible shooting in the Hampden Park area of Reading. Police were called to 1200 Oak Lane just after 5 a.m. Sunday for a report of ...

Students at Stowe Elementary are celebrating the joys of reading, with some hands-on experience. Nearly 500 books will find new homes over the next two days for the 11th annual 'I love to read' event ...

Community volunteers host a book fair, offering children two free new books to encourage reading and learning.

Some Tucson Unified School District teachers will have one less standardized test to administer to students next quarter, after the district’s teachers union and governing board came to an agreement ...

Until recently I believed that the three greatest contributions audiobooks have made to civilization were providing access to books to the sight-impaired, reducing the tedium of mindless drudgery and ...

There’s no easy shortcut to raising reading scores, a panel of experts told lawmakers during a congressional hearing on the “science of reading” on Tuesday. As the movement to align literacy ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to ...

Ohio plans to reduce a nearly two-mile stretch of Reading Road from four lanes to two with a center turn lane. The $3.9 million "road diet" project aims to slow traffic through the city of Reading and ...