There is much blaming and finger-pointing as to why the U.S. isn’t doing better. Some experts say that parents are allowing kids to spend too much time on screens, while others argue that elementary ...

It’s well-documented that all Americans—not just kids—are reading less in their leisure time than in decades past. The share ...

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and ...

The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or JAMA, on Oct. 13, found that 9- to 13-year-olds ...

A sweeping new study from the University of Florida and University College London has found that daily reading for pleasure in the United States has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 ...

A new study found that when young children spend time with screens, their school test scores are lower years later.

Long before the smartphone era, television through cartoons, movies, and music was a primary source of entertainment for children. Even then, screen time was often blamed for promoting inactivity. Now ...