A sweeping new study finds daily pleasure reading in the U.S. has fallen more than 40% over the past two decades. The decline is sharpest among Black Americans, rural residents, and people with lower ...

Reading for enjoyment is becoming a lost habit among today’s youth, as more and more students struggle with the foundational skills needed to read effectively. Learning to read is challenging—it ...

Nonrequired reading has dropped about 3% a year for 20 years, a sign Americans may be getting dumber. Book lovers, like ...

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the United States down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study finds. Researchers from University College London and ...

Jokes about the decline in reading literacy among Americans abound, but a recent study confirms this troubling trend. Over the last 20 years, researchers found there's been a 40% decline in the ...

Reading: It’s one of the three Rs (you know—reading, wRiting, aRithmetic) and a main pillar of education. As such, reports of kids losing interest in reading around age nine—dubbed ‘decline by ...

Any reader knows the unique delight of settling down with a good book. But over the past two decades, there has been a steady decline in Americans who read for fun, according to a study published ...

A recent study has found a sharp decline in the number of Americans who choose to read for fun. The national report published last month in the journal iScience found that people reading for pleasure ...

This fact I read recently disappointed me: Most children stop reading for fun by the age of 9. Do what? Reading for fun is how I grew up! Nancy Drew was always solving mysteries. Cherry Ames was the ...

This post was updated Oct. 12 at 7:39 p.m. After juggling being assigned 20-page textbook readings and 10 chapters from books written by the professors themselves, many students have neither the time ...

With competition from televisions, tablets and video games, books are often overlooked by kids — even those who are excellent readers — as a way to entertain themselves. But with a little support, ...