Amid consistently bad news for US education, one development in public schools is so horrifying, few would believe it’s even ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

The Rancho Santa Fe School District is extending its timeline for adopting a new English language arts curriculum due to updated guidance from the state reflecting a multiyear strategy to improve ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

In American high schools, the age of the book may be fading. Many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and ...