Mark Bauerlein (“Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind,” The Chronicle Review, September 19) writes that when reading Web pages, students’ eyes jump “around chasing keywords, bullet points, visuals, and ...

Young children who were read five books a day by their parents entered kindergarten hearing over 1 million words more than their peers.

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 ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

This book is a new edition of a well-known introduction to the Old Testament, written by Larry Boadt and later revised and updated by my teachers, Richard Clifford and Dan Harrington. Paulist Press ...

Reading is hard right now. The pandemic has pushed our already scattered attention spans to a crisis point. But even before 2020, stressors such as political chaos and the allure of our phones made it ...

If I read every single page that my professors assigned to me, I'd be a wreck of a person. If I have 5 classes that require 70 pages of reading per week, that's 350 pages of material per week (or ...

Editor’s note: This column was published in 2019. Read the latest from Chicago Tribune Opinion here. I know people who say they don’t watch television, and I always nod and agree. Reading is an ...