Mike Villareal wasn’t worried about losing his identity or purpose when he retired from his decades-long refinery job at Total Energies eight years ago. He already had a new role in place as a reading ...

Boston Day and Evening Academy gives non-traditional students a nearly obsessive level of attention, from small classes to free city bus passes.

“Kids just kept coming, renewing books and stuff,” said Mack.

Reading alone is a deeply enjoyable activity. But being read to has its own irreplaceable allure. The Harvard Sentences are ...

UW-La Crosse's Professional Studies in Education Reading program ranks among the nation's best, empowering educators to ...

Literacy Activist Olga de la Cruz says the science of reading is the will solve literacy losses suffered mostly by poor kids ...

When adults join reading programs, they can be at literacy levels ranging from third graders to high school seniors ... and many times, these comprehension gaps are actually due to more foundational ...

Homelessness in the U.S. hit the highest level on record this year as the affordable housing crisis intensifies, federal regulators said Friday. The Department of Housing and Urban Development ...

We hear from Atlantic staffers about the books they read in high school that stuck with them. In an era when fewer young people are reading books, we state what might be obvious to the already ...

They blamed cell phones, standardized tests, and extracurriculars, and they mostly agreed that the shift began in high school ... of mimic the format of reading-comprehension tests.