“Several people have told me lately that they’ve stopped being able to read, echoing my own experience,” author Katherine May confessed in her newsletter recently. Statistics suggest May and her ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Hunter discovered that if you recalibrate a course to prioritize “developing a ...

VALENCIA COUNTY, N.M. — Valencia County property owners will notice an adjusted property tax bill after an error in November caused an erroneous increase. The ...

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Put down Wordle. New brain-exercise-for-the-day just dropped. “Can you read 900 words per minute?” a viral post that has been doing the rounds on X, challenges. “Try it.” If you made it to 600 words ...

Alison Baverstock is the founder and director of the charity Reading Force (1159890) which is funded by grants from organisations, charities and benevolent ...

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If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

Time got away from them! New York City teachers have found that scores of teenagers can’t read traditional clocks after a cellphone ban in schools statewide — because students figured the skill would ...

Some New York City teachers say it’s high time for a refresher on old-fashioned clocks. Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones ...

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