New research from University College London and the University of Florida suggests that the number of people in the U.S. who read for pleasure is declining Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial ...

The average reader has read their favorite book six times — and anticipates they’ll read it another seven times during their lifetime, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 American readers, ...

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study finds. Researchers from University College London and ...

Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Fewer Americans than ever before are reading for pleasure, according to a new study released Wednesday, declining 40 percent in the past 20 years. Only 16 percent of Americans age 15 and over read for ...

Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that. Men are leaving fiction reading behind. Some people want to change that. In the mid-20th century, when this man browsed ...

When was the last time you read a book? According to a new NPR/Ipsos poll, reading is something a majority of Americans enjoy, and want to get better at. But it's nowhere near a top priority. The ...

What should a young reader do when they come to a word they don’t know? It’s the most basic hurdle in reading, and the strategies a teacher gives can make the difference in a student’s literacy ...

Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...