Philosopher George Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” That warning sounds more ominous once you realize how many college students can’t ...

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 ...

To make her argument about “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” Rose Horowitch, assistant editor at The Atlantic, opens her contentious article with a vignette about Columbia’s ...

In a study published by the Pew Research Center in 2021, they found that 23 percent of Americans haven’t read a single book in the past year. This same study found that 31 percent of Americans making ...

Re “I Get Why Students No Longer Read,” by Jonathan Malesic (Opinion guest essay, Nov. 10): I just completed a 40-plus-year career teaching literature courses to university students, and I agree with ...

When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. “Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and ...

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school, Rose Horowitch wrote in the November 2024 issue. I’m an English teacher at a private college-preparatory school, and much of ...

Are students reading at all these days? Source: Liz Swan / author Every year, my writing program hosts a summer seminar in which faculty members introduce new teaching strategies (e.g., what is ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

State High student and district governor of Pennsylvania Key Club Heidi Egerer talks about reading to the 3 to 5 year olds in ...