After 125 years or so of being the most collectively Joe College nation on Earth, many Americans have turned sour on the idea that a higher education — or at least the four years we have ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As reading declines among college students, a book sale at LSU gave me hope for the future. BY DANNY HEITMAN | Contributing writer; May 11, 2025 May 11, 2025; 2 min to read.

That, the $200 monthly check my (sainted) mother sent me and the $15 a week I made for writing for the student newspaper covered everything: rent, books, meals, beer, whatnot. Undergraduate bliss.

After 125 years or so of being the most collectively Joe College nation on Earth, many Americans have turned sour on the idea that a higher education — or at least the four years we have traditionally ...