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In the perfect world, students would read the texts we carefully curate for them with equal attention and care. In reality, many students struggle with college-level readings, either giving up on ...

One of the primary missions of any educational institution is to produce graduates who are literate. The ability to derive meaning from print is central to the definition of literacy. Many people ...

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After crunching numbers, a team from University College London and the University of Florida found that the number of Americans who read books for fun on any given day fell 40 percent between 2003 and ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

The semester has begun and with that comes the normal academic rush: preparing for each class meeting, juggling required assignments, getting ready for upcoming midterm exams. The one way to improve ...