Confession: I never read “The Grapes of Wrath.” Not until now. Most people are forced to read it in high school. It was ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...

Students in New York City’s largest school district are so bored by the DOE’s dumbed-down math curriculum they read novels in class, parents say. Families are forced to shell out thousands of dollars ...

Allowing video to crowd out reading means trading selecting and constructing for patience and willingness to follow direction. It’s a poor bargain in the age of AI.

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

A quarter-century ago, David Saylor shepherded the epic Harry Potter fantasy series onto U.S. bookshelves. As creative director of children’s publisher Scholastic, he helped design and execute the ...

"Everyone calls him GoGo," the head of the language center said. "Why do they call him GoGo?" "You'll see," was the reply. And yes, that kid could go, go, go! GoGo was always attentive, always ...

In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and ...