New research from Australia and the UK suggests that the number of parents reading aloud to children is at an all-time low, ...

The great American author Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” Once again this summer, I am happy to be joining my colleagues in the State Senate, in partnership with ...

Jackson students who attended Freedom Schools this summer march in a gymnasium on Friday morning, June 27, 2025 at Thomas Cardozo Middle School. Credit: Devna Bose/Mississippi Today A cacophony of ...

The organization surveyed two groups in December 2024: 5,136 U.S. adults ages 18 and older — including 808 parents of children enrolled in K-12 — and 2,831 managers. It found nearly all U.S. adults ...

Meanwhile, psychologist Jean Twenge, author of Generations, said today’s students are reaching adulthood with “empty toolboxes", which she said, is a byproduct of helicopter parenting and delayed ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Reading is a skill many take for granted, but for some adults, it’s a daily challenge. Literacy SC is working to change that—one page at a time. Since relaunching its ...

The Decline of Reading Skills. Let's face it: Reading isn't what it used to be. In the attention economy of the digital world, long-form content is often seen as a chore rather than a pleasure ...

Students without good reading skills will generally struggle in all their studies and adults will do likewise in their careers. Every year, March is celebrated as Reading Month . Since we are only one ...

Among fourth graders nationally, 40 percent failed to reach the NAEP basic reading skills. That proportion was even larger for some groups when broken down by race, making up more than half of ...

Children and adults both watch more video on their phones, meaning “there is a displacement of reading text, which is probably increasing over time in degree and severity,” he said.

New national test scores show a bleak picture of American education in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.. Fourth and eighth graders' literacy skills dipped – once again – on the U.S ...

Recent results from an OECD study flagged a significant decline in literacy in Singaporean adults after age 35. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.