Nearly a year ago, when Education Week hosted an online conference about adolescent literacy across the content areas, we got a lot of interested and enthusiastic responses from participants. But we ...

High school seniors had the worst reading scores since 1992 on a national test, a loss probably related to increases in screen time and the pandemic. Their math scores fell as well. By Dana Goldstein ...

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From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend. By Maggie Astor Any reader knows the unique delight of ...

More New York City public school students are considered “proficient readers” after two years of major curriculum reforms, according to state test scores released Monday. About 56.3% of third through ...

Stephanie N. Del Tufo, Ph.D. research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NICHD, NIDCD, NIE, NINDS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Spencer Foundation, the University ...

New York City students are showing early signs of progress in reading after the Adams administration overhauled how the subject is taught in public schools, according to new data released Wednesday.

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

TIOBE Programming Index News June 2025: SQL Falls to Record Low Popularity Your email has been sent The programming language SQL hit 12th place in the TIOBE Programming Community Index, its lowest ...

The prosecution in Karen Read’s trial looked to cement its narrative surrounding the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe by turning to a crash expert’s data placing Read at the crime scene ...

Editor's note: This page summarizes testimony in the Karen Read trial for Tuesday, May 27. For the latest updates on the Karen Read retrial, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Wednesday, May 28. An expert ...

Inspired by how DNA can pack massive quantities of information into tiny amounts of material, chemists have been working for years on ways to use molecules for data storage. They’ve investigated ...