BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown launched the 20th annual Mayor’s Reading Rules! Kid’s Summer Reading Challenge on Tuesday. This year, the challenge runs from June 1 to August 20, and will ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

George R.R. Martin said, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” Books, in whatever form, are the ultimate do-it-your-own-way escape. But if that ...

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As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...