Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books. Explore the November 2024 Issue Check out more from this issue and find your next ...

College students can’t read. Not a whole book, not with attention all the way through. ... It’s certainly true that college students read fewer books than previous generations did, ...

To make her argument about “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” Rose Horowitch, assistant editor at The Atlantic, opens her contentious =social&utm_source=twitter">article</a> with a ...

Teachers have shifted away from assigning whole books before students ever reach college. Only 17% of third-to-eighth-grade teachers said they primarily teach whole texts, a recent EdWeek Research ...

College costs have surged over the last 20 years, but there are strategies that could help ease the burden. Consumer ...

In 2011, I taught a college class on the meaning and value of work. It was a general-education class, the sort that students say they have to “get out of the way” before they move on to their ...

When this year’s college graduates first arrived on campus, there was no such thing as ChatGPT. They had to use their own brains for math homework, econ problem sets, coding projects, Spanish ...

EDITORIAL: When the ‘best’ students don’t read books New students at top universities can face many intimidating challenges. Reading a book isn’t supposed to be one of them.

In the long run, the synopsis approach harms students’ critical thinking skills, said Alden Jones, a literature professor at Emerson College in Boston. She assigns fewer books than she once did ...