COMMENTARY: From medical studies to classic Catholic stories, evidence abounds: reading aloud is one of the most powerful ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Ilana Kurshan is so obsessively determined a reader that when she was in labor with her first child she passed the time between contractions by immersing herself in a book. Naturally, she began ...