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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

Reading for pleasure has plummeted more than 40% among U.S. adults over the last two decades, Digital distractions and a ...