As The New Yorker turns a hundred, we asked Zadie Smith, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Ottessa Moshfegh to compose new stories that were ...

For the third year, Valley Players in Napa has planned a summer packed with original performances, giving playwrights, actors ...

Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...

In this passage from near the opening of Lake of Darkness, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are given an ...

Fewer Virginia students are passing third-grade standardized reading tests, a concerning trend for what experts describe as the most important predictor of a student’s future academic success.

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Each are assigned a grade and difficulty level. The questions may be delivered with a short reading passage. About 58.7% of students engaged in the 30-minute weekly gameplay, ...

Bestselling “Prep” and “Romantic Comedy” author Curtis Sittenfeld dwells in the comically awkward. In her utterly diverting collection of 12 short stories, “Show Don’t Tell,” she ...

Start the year off with a fresh, new reading challenge! The Amazing Book Challenge returns for 2025 with 12 new themes designed to take readers on an unexpected literary adventure.

Houston ISD has partnered with Prof Jim — an generative AI company founded in 2020 — to generate reading passages for students in third through tenth grade this year.

Reading shouldn’t be stressful, but sometimes it’s fun to turn up the heat with a challenge to see how many books you can read in a year. Just don’t talk to us the last two weeks of December ...