Reading is a highly valuable skill that allows humans to acquire new knowledge, pursue an education and complete a wide range of real-world tasks. Many past psychology and neuroscience studies set out ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rick Hess is a scholar who writes about K-12 and higher education. Sep 18, 2024, 06:00am EDT Sep 18, 2024, 08:54pm EDT Higher ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

This week, Stevie Nicks aired her ID, a very chipper brand ran into a not-very-chipper lawsuit, and Paddington got a passport. Here's what NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — ...

W hen I was an undergraduate at Amherst College, it was a rite of passage for all English majors to discover that they had entirely misunderstood Robert Frost’s most famous poem “The Road Not Taken” ( ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

From the Civil War to the dawn of the new millennium, one book has held a secure spot in American classrooms: the basal reader. These anthologies of excerpts, poems, and other short works have been ...