This meta-analysis examines the effectiveness of university library reading promotion activities on college students’ cultural development and identifies the underlying psychological mechanisms and ...

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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 ...

Reading’s commitment to Vision Zero aims to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries. Charles Gushue, a traffic engineer with McCormick Taylor Engineering, the city’s consultant on the effort, ...

In my work with students across age groups, I have found great power in using words and images, as well as elements of design, to build capacity for critical analysis and discussion. Comics can be an ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

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Just slowing down gives you time to question and reflect. Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of ...

Propaganda loves grammar that deletes responsible actors: passives (“mistakes were made”), nominalizations (“the implementation of policy”), and abstract forces (“market failures,” “systemic pressures ...

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 ...