Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reading and listening are two different brain functions. Do we need to do both? Goads Agency/E+ via Getty Images Let’s start with ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

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 ...

Americans are reading for pleasure less. Let’s get back in the habit. By Jancee Dunn The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer ...

The NAEP’s normative focus camouflages variations as well as how rapidly young people’s abilities change. The consequences of “the reading wars” of phonics versus phonetics are seldom noted. Young ...