The loan of two giant pandas from China to Dublin Zoo in 1986 was hailed a great success – until one of the pandas died some time after returning to China. Ming Ming and Ping Ping spent 100 days at ...

With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...

It's been about two months since we re-launched the Dark Reading Commentary section to focus on opinions. Today, we clarify two other types of Commentary submissions that we publish on Dark Reading.

We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that something we’re reading was written by a large language model — but it’s remarkably difficult to pin down. For a few months last year, everyone became ...

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In an age when students are often working on computers, typing up essays and homework instead of writing them out, the art of cursive writing may feel like a relic of the past.

Looking to up the stakes on your fall reading? Whether you prefer audiobooks in your autumn, flipping pages by the fire or gathering for a lively book club discussion, USA TODAY has suggestions for ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

Myra Deshmukh worked at Amazon for over a decade and taught a business writing course to other employees. She shares seven tips for improving email communication, including being concise and avoiding ...