Reading boosts cognitive development, improves academic performance, and strengthens social emotional learning skills.

Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...

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 ...

Reading without a purpose leads to lesser comprehension and long-term memory. Many students who read this way find it difficult to participate in class discussions and do as well on their exams as ...

Career Tips: Close your eyes and imagine what the world will be like in a few hundred years. Perhaps by then, humans will have become galactic travelers. We might be living on spaceships or planets, ...