Philosophies about literacy vary substantially among area school districts. In East Prairie and Sikeston, a Reading First initiative has begun. The federal program provides money and support for ...

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

It happens in a blink. Your eyes glance over a page, and letters become words. Words transform into meaning. Sentences unfurl into stories or arguments. But what exactly happens in your brain when you ...

Back in August of this year, I compiled some of the different types of book readers we all represent—or know of—in our daily reading lives, as inspired by a post over at The New Yorker in which writer ...