Educational Testing Service recently announced a series of enhancements for the Test of English as a Foreign Language, including a new 1-6 score scale and faster reporting within 72 hours. The updates ...

PrepEx has published a research report based on anonymized repeat-learner TOEFL data, with a February 2026 snapshot of ...

Omar Chihane, Global General Manager – TOEFL and GRE, ETS, who was in New Delhi recently, says the Educational Testing Service has experienced multiple policy eras, challenges, and opportunities.

Students attending a college or university in the U.S. have to submit various documents to be considered for admission, like their high school transcript, essays, teacher recommendations ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

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The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign – one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisis Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a ...

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Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

A version of this story appeared in the weekly Newsletter from the Editor. Sign up here. It was just after 5:00 a.m., and I was wide-awake in a hotel in Rome. Jet lag, certainly. I grabbed my phone, ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...