Alphabet’s AI research company DeepMind has released the next generation of its language model, and it says that it has close to the reading comprehension of a high schooler — a startling claim. It ...

Recent studies reveal a troubling statistic: nearly half of all Americans did not read a single book in 2025, with reading habits plummeting by 40% over the last decade. Within this context, Gen Z is ...

As a journalism major, most of my classes have consisted of reading new articles or analyses — shorter content and, every once in a while, a scholarly paper. So for about a year or two, I didn’t read ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Oct 10, 2023, 12:05pm EDT Oct 13, 2023, 02:47pm EDT This article is ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

The benefits of reading with children are innumerable. Children who read with their caregivers report higher levels of reading comprehension, fluency and self-confidence. But do you know of its mental ...

In the last few weeks, I’ve seen online posts from teachers bemoaning their students’ lack of enthusiasm for reading. Our international standardized test scores are down again. And then there’s the ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

August 15, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google When you’re writing documents, consider that your readers might have difficulty comprehending whatever it is you ...