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Reading scores among 15-year-olds in the United States have fallen to the lowest level in about 25 years, according to an international education assessment. On Tuesday, the Organisation for Economic ...

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PARIS, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Teenagers more accustomed to smartphones than Shakespeare are reading at the worst levels seen this century, driving a broader decline in education, a global student ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

Bottom line: OpenAI's latest financial disclosures highlight a fundamental tension in the AI boom. The technology is scaling rapidly, but the cost of building and running it is rising even faster. The ...

New federal test scores show younger students are making gains in reading and math — after years of declines. "I think this is an optimistic release," Matthew Soldner, acting commissioner of the ...

Every year, Amnesty International releases a report detailing the use of the death penalty from the previous year. In this year’s report, there was a staggering rise in executions and death sentences, ...

The total number of books published in the U.S. in 2025 with ISBN numbers jumped 32.5% over 2024, to more than four million books, according to statistics compiled by Bowker. The increase was led by ...

YouTube has hit some impressive numbers in 2025. According to new estimates from research firm Moffett Nathanson — as reported by The Hollywood Reporter — the platform pulled in a staggering $40.4 ...

The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor YouTube‘s cultural influence ...

More than 40 percent of Americans think that listening to audiobooks is less rigorous and really doesn’t count as reading. Cognitive neuroscientist Nadine Gaab disagrees, and she and other education ...