Researchers concluded that teaching "Core Knowledge" can remove the reading gap between rich and poor children. But the study included very few low-income students.

The decline includes everything from reading a fictional romance novel on a Kindle to reading an enterprise news story in a local paper.

Scientists have proven in the past that reading stimulates many different parts of the brain. In a 2006 study, for example, research subjects read the words “perfume” and “coffee,” and the ...

With a considerable body of research on how children acquire basic reading skills already established, more attention needs to be directed toward building a sustained and systematic study of ...

Americans aren’t just reading fewer books, but are reading less and less of everything, in any medium, says a report scheduled for release today by the National Endowment for the Arts.

A new study published on Aug. 20 by journal iScience said that the amount of people in the U.S. who read for pleasure has ...

Does your kid read a lot? A new study suggests they’re likely happier, more physically active, have a more active imagination and even problem-solve better than kids who rarely or never read.

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a ...

Learning to move with the beat could boost reading skills because both abilities are partly powered by the same ability in the brain, according to a study of more than 100 finger-tapping Chicago ...

A sweeping new study finds daily pleasure reading in the U.S. has fallen more than 40% over the past two decades. The decline ...

From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing ...