Researchers have long observed that a small—and declining—number of students actually complete their assigned readings; a study of reading quizzes taken in a psychology class between 1981 and 1997 ...

In the English class he taught before becoming a dean last year at Bentonville High School in Arkansas, students engaged with plays, poetry and articles but read just one book together as a class. “At ...

Reading engages classical left-hemispheric language regions and the cerebellum, with specific subregions processing letters, words, sentences, and texts. Overt reading activates auditory and motor ...

The texts students read are vehicles for the ideas they are exposed to, ... unsurprising for English-language curricula. British texts comprised 50% of the list 25 years ago.