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A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...
With the average student shelling out $1,200 a year just on books, students, professors and policy groups are searching for ways to circumvent the high cost of traditional textbooks. It’s no ...
Dark Themes in Books Get Students Reading By Kathleen Kennedy Manzo — March 30, 2007 | Corrected: April 10, 2007 9 min read Share article ...
When reading to learn, what works best for students — printed books or digital texts? Noelle Park reads at Chevalier’s Books in Larchmont Village in August 2019. (Los Angeles Times) ...
My favorite hobby has become reading and writing. English is not my best subject, but I do pretty well in it. The first time I got hooked on a book was the summer before seventh grade. I went to ...
That’s right, instead of reading about how students at elite colleges struggle to read books, you can listen to an AI-generated voice read a summary of it for you.
Whether through atrophy or apathy, a generation of students is reading fewer books. They might read more as they age—older adults are the most voracious readers—but the data are not encouraging.
Books Not-so-great expectations: Students are reading fewer books in English class “There was a trend, it happened when COVID hit, to stop reading full-length novels because students were in ...
Professors across the country have noticed a troubling trend: College students are reading less than ever, and a recent study found many students enter college with challenges completing an entire ...
Teachers have shifted away from assigning whole books before students ever reach college. Only 17% of third-to-eighth-grade teachers said they primarily teach whole texts, a recent EdWeek Research ...
Even outside school, students are reading less. There’s little data on how many books are assigned by schools. But in general, students are reading less. Federal data from last year shows only 14% of ...