Founded in February 1996, the nonprofit Children’s Reading Foundation (CRF) marks 30 years dedicated to ensuring children ...

Children and an adult read books at the Altadena Main Library in Altadena, Calif., in March 2025. Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images After decades of stagnating ...

INDIANAPOLIS (MIRROR INDY) — Diana Hernandez wants her children to experience reading like she never did. The mother of three makes sure her kids spend 45 minutes reading every day regardless of ...

(MIRROR INDY) — When Dorla Williams sits down with students for their weekly reading test, she takes an old school approach. The educator helps four squirmy kindergarteners take their seats around a ...

Motivating kids to read has always been a challenge for parents, teachers, and caregivers alike. For many children, learning to read starts as a task, something they have to do, rather than something ...

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

New literacy campaigns, such as Turn on the Subtitles, have pointed to TV as a way to entice children to read, through same-language subtitles. However, research from Britain suggests that children ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) K. Dara Hill, University of Michigan-Dearborn (THE CONVERSATION) Five years after the ...