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Glasses Improve Income, Not Just Eyesight

A study found that when farsighted workers in Bangladesh were given free reading glasses, they earned 33 percent more than…

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No More No. 2 Pencils: The SAT Goes Fully Digital

The new format cuts nearly an hour out of the exam and has shorter reading passages.

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Where Downtown Poets Go to Church to Greet the New Year

On the first day of the year, over a thousand devotees passed through the old church where the Poetry Project…

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What to Know About the Science of Reading

An effort to overhaul how children learn to read, known as the science of reading movement, is sweeping the country.…

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As Literacy Lags, Hochul Proposes Changing How Schools Teach Reading

New York State ranks 32nd in reading proficiency. The governor is proposing changes to literacy education to address that.

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What I’m Reading

A history of forced population transfers sheds light on present conflicts.

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New York Is Forcing Schools to Change How They Teach Children to Read

Half of children in grades three to eight fail reading tests. The city’s schools chancellor, who has faulted the current…

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What’s the Best Way to Teach Reading?

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Two-Thirds of Kids Struggle to Read, and We Know How to Fix It

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too…

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