Just as we make time to eat to keep our bodies alive, we must make time to read to children every day. To read is to learn, and to learn is to be alive. Reading is food for the brain. What if you ...

Newspapers report the bad news. They ruin my day with summaries of why our economy is failing or why our schools are not getting kids to learn.

A major worry is whether public schools are preparing children to read well enough that they will want to read for pleasure as well as information when they become adults. Only about a third of the ...

It’s a paid subscription-only paper, published every day but Sunday, and while more than 165,000 families subscribe, the parents who foot the bill are increasingly non-newspaper-readers themselves.

It’s early morning in the Paris headquarters of leading French newspaper Mon Quotidien, and the news team is busy discussing a story on the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. “Do you know where Mecca ...

In the merely personal sense, what worked for me was the whole language approach, because I was so fascinated by the contents of the two newspapers that daily landed on our driveway — one of ...

MATTOON - School's out for summer, but the need for reading should not take a long break.