Reading
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World
‘I Was Settling Into My Morning Commute on the 4 Train’
Catching up on the news, appreciating a counterman’s skills and more reader tales of New York City in this week’s…
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Health
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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World
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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Style
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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World
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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World
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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World
What I’m Reading
A history of forced population transfers sheds light on present conflicts.
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World
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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News
What’s the Best Way to Teach Reading?
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News
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…