As a former English teacher with a background in literacy education, I’ve seen how imperative it is that kids have a solid reading foundation. At the same time, as a mom to three young kids, I feel ...

This Read Across America Day, we proudly join millions of students, parents, teachers, and librarians across our Nation in celebrating the importance of reading in our homes and literacy in our ...

Karen Read was back in a Dedham, Massachusetts courtroom Thursday asking a judge to force the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office to give back her cellphones while a special prosecutor has not ...

When life gets really hectic, sitting quietly with a book can feel like an impossible luxury. And when does a smartphone-mediated world feel less than hectic? Any shred of free time is too easy to ...

They say the holidays are the most wonderful time of the year, but around these parts, we know nothing tops the launch of the annual Popsugar Reading Challenge — our take on a virtual book club that ...

When was the last time you curled up with a good book or flipped through the pages of a magazine? If it’s been a while, you’re not alone: The number of Americans who read for fun has plummeted over ...

A few months into my first year of teaching middle-school English in Santa Fe, I realized that a handful of my students were not reading books. I had carefully structured the class time so there would ...

From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. By Maggie Astor Any reader knows the unique delight of ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. “Do we need to read, or can we just get ...

Banning, and even burning, books that conflict with tightly-held ideology is nothing new. In 1933, student-led book burnings at the University of Berlin spurred a list of government-enforced banned ...

Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman whose widely watched murder trial ended with a hung jury last year, was acquitted of second-degree murder Wednesday after prosecutors retried her in the 2022 death ...