Science says: Reading is GOOD for you

[LWolf]

13. I explain this

to parents of middle schoolers 100 times a year during parent conferences, and numerous times a year directly to all students in my classes. I have for decades, and I have the decades' worth of research to back it up. It's part of explaining why spending time reading, and providing evidence of that time spent, is the only homework I ever assign, and why they won't get a passing grade if they don't do that homework. Demographically, my students mostly come from poor, under-educated, semi-literate homes that have no actual reading material in the home.

Many of my students eventually discover a love of reading that will last a lifetime. They tell me that while they're with me, and they come back to tell me that after they've gone on. More of them discover academic and intellectual ability that they never thought they had.

If there is one powerful thing to feed growing minds, it's reading.