Researchers are warning that the U.S. is experiencing a reading recession, a slide that predates the COVID-19 pandemic.

Remember those devastating learning losses that began during the pandemic? Turns out, they began years before COVID-19. Some ...

Kids across the United States have been caught in the crosshairs of a “reading recession” that predated the COVID-19 pandemic ...

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The Bronx is learning — at least in charter schools. Students from charter schools in the borough’s poorest neighborhoods, including the South Bronx, excelled on state reading and math exams — with ...

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...