Forty years ago, Donald Homa, a professor of psychology at Arizona State University specializing in memory and the visual perception of linguistic stimuli, was contacted by officials at the American ...

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Reading is the road to greater understanding of the world and ourselves. For many of us, though, it can be a slower road than we’d like. But reading is a skill like any other, so you can improve with ...

The most profitable 60 minutes of professional development I have ever spent was in 2005. I’d just started graduate school, and the school offered a speed-reading course. Since I’d missed the course ...

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Having learned a speed reading technique when I was in college the approach of only reading one word at a time seems foolhardy. For the technique I was taught I run my hand at a 45 deg. angle across ...