When you get lost in a book, you often enter a trance-like state similar to meditation and that state is deeply protective.” ...

We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are at record lows. By Dana Goldstein When you were in high school, did your English teacher assign you full books to read from ...

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According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...