The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Timothy Shanahan, ...

This article by Stephanie N. Del Tufo, assistant professor of education and human development at the University of Delaware, has been republished with permission from The Conversation’s Curious Kids ...

Writers, activists and politicians on the books they turn to for wisdom and perspective – and to restore their faith in human nature ...

Last month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” which sparked a lot of debate. Professors told Horowitch that their students felt overwhelmed at the ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. “Do we need to read, or can we just get ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

The UNC-Chapel Hill branch of the Difficult Women Book Club met in Peabody Hall this past Tuesday night to discuss their latest book of the month, "Violeta" by Isabel Allende. The Difficult Women Book ...

An honest account of struggling through Kiran Desai’s Booker-winning novel despite high expectations. , Books, Times Now ...

Reading remains one of the most powerful tools that a lot of people find difficult to use. And in today’s world, social media has become the dwelling area of people with distractions.Contents1. The ...

Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has spent his career evaluating education research and helping teachers figure out what works best in the classroom. A ...