But other data show older teenagers are losing ground. Reading scores on the Program for International Student Assessment, released this month, dropped 14 points for U.S. 15-year-olds, which ...

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Students in Singapore and parts of China had the highest scores on the test known as PISA. Scores for American students were ...

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In a new review, scientists argue that reading boosts mental health and academic performance, leads to greater empathy and ...

Hindered by falling reading standards, average teenage science and maths skills were also at their lowest this century.

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

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National Library Board chief says ‘we want to see a nation of readers who are curious, thoughtful, discerning and equipped to ...

Krupp has held about a dozen of the so-called Book Doofs in Melbourne, and three in Perth, since the first event in October ...