Reading
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News
Commentary: Advice to CEOs – pick up a book
In his book Culture And Anarchy, Victorian author Matthew Arnold wrote of “sweetness and light” – or beauty and intelligence…
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Fewer Americans are reading for fun, study finds – is screen time displacing books everywhere?
Any reader knows the unique delight of settling down with a good book. But over the past two decades, there…
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Mexico
Mexican auto parts exempt from tariffs: Friday mañanera recap
At her Friday morning press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum spoke about “good news” on the ever-changing tariff front, Mexico’s most…
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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel Orbital wins the Booker Prize for fiction
British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for fiction on Tuesday (Nov 12) with Orbital, a short, wonder-filled novel…
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Videos
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Spain
How this school in a disadvantaged part of Spain is boosting literacy
A neighbourhood in Spain where the average salary is a fraction of the national one, unemployment is double the country’s…
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She offers free classes to help low income kids learn how to read: ‘They deserve the same opportunities’
“In Singapore, many parents who can afford it are sending their children for enrichment classes to learn to read before…
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United Kingdom
Report on international reading ability scores EU countries highly
The PIRLS report found that England, Finland and Poland achieved particularly high scores in the reading tests, despite international disruption…
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