“Reading is dead” has become one of culture’s most confidently repeated claims—invoked every time attention spans shrink, ...

Vigil” opens with ultrawealthy oil executive K.J. Boone unconscious on his deathbed, where he is visited by Jill, an ...

This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

Still, I didn’t think about the ways this holds true for other writers until a recent conversation I had with the novelist ...

Elementary school children may be harmed by overuse of tech tools for spelling. Literacy experts are calling for change and explicit spelling instruction in every classroom.

Recent research published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology found that when 5-year-old prereaders practiced writing by hand, they significantly outperformed children who typed the same ...

It's no secret New Zealand is facing a literacy crisis. Education Minister Erica Stanford has voiced serious concerns about ...

Dear Heloise: I sympathize to some extent with the writer in a recent column of yours lamented how doctor’s offices will say the appointment is at 10:00 a.m. but ask that you arrive at 9:30 a.m. for ...

In 2024, my niece Caroline received a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave physics. Her research interests include “the impact of model inaccuracies on biases in parameters recovered from gravitational wave ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...