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They blamed cell phones, standardized tests, and extracurriculars, and they mostly agreed that the shift began in high school ...
Reading classic novels in high school hardly gives room for you to actually enjoy the plot and meaning, especially when ...
At Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C., the 11th-grade honors English students are reading The Kite Runner. And students like Megan Bell are reading some heavy-duty books in their spare ...
In high school, my English teacher gave the class a long list of books for required outside reading. One book on the list that I didn’t pick up until college was Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit ...
NR writers reflect on which popular books high schoolers should ditch, and what they should read instead. ... A Better High-School Reading List (YakobchukOlena/Getty Images) Share Comments Listen.
In high school, we suddenly all became obsessed with prohibition and the 1920s and Daisy Buchanan. Also, because it was one of the shorter books on the required reading list, people actually read ...
Quite a few high school reading lists could do with a timely face lift. Here are just a few books that would make a great addition to any syllabus: 1 'The Handmaid's Tale' by Margaret Atwood ...
According to Burlingame High School librarian Rebecca Velasco, she’s only seen around 10 students check out books since January 2024. “The numbers are pretty low.
Books on the high school list were discussed in at least two previous board meetings before their adoption. Among the selections, 'Like Water for Chocolate,' by Laura Esquivel, contains sexual scenes.
While my high school skipped Lord of the Flies, I’m very glad I got my first read in before I became an adult. And almost any time a marginalized author managed to claw their way into the canon ...
They blamed cell phones, standardized tests, and extracurriculars, and they mostly agreed that the shift began in high school. Young people don’t read entire books in college because they rarely ...