‘Take up and read’ – reading improves cognitive skills

‘Take up and read’ – reading improves cognitive skills

In 2024, a grim little piece of research about reading prowess was published by Johns Hopkins Press. It was called, in a masterpiece of understatement, They Don’t Read Very Well: A Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities. The research was carried out in 2015, before the advent of…

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