As the 2026 SATs approach, Year 6 parents in England are gearing up to support their children through these school ...

These were the primary schools in Sheffield that sadly did not come off well last year in instilling reading, writing and ...

SATs anxiety is rising, yet teachers say a simple playground negotiation skill can calm stressed Year 6 pupils and boost confidence.

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Exclusive: Report says British teenagers’ time for books is being crowded out by schoolwork, screens and sports Fewer than one in 10 boys aged 14 to 16 in the UK read daily, according to research, ...

Until recently I believed that the three greatest contributions audiobooks have made to civilization were providing access to books to the sight-impaired, reducing the tedium of mindless drudgery and ...

Papier’s reading journal is the low-tech way I made reading feel calmer and more intentional – and you don’t need to love reading to benefit from it The best e-readers in the US, for every kind of ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A little girl stared at a list of test questions in her science class, unable to ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

I was 25-years-old and living in New York City. I had just finished my first novel, set to dip my toes into the literary world for the first time. Then, I spilled water on my computer, and lost the ...

A version of this story appeared in the weekly Newsletter from the Editor. Sign up here. It was just after 5:00 a.m., and I was wide-awake in a hotel in Rome. Jet lag, certainly. I grabbed my phone, ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...