They blamed cell phones, standardized tests, and extracurriculars, and they mostly agreed that the shift began in high school ...

The school board followed recommendations from its Curriculum Council in rejecting the four books, and including 47 others slated for a variety of grade levels and topic areas.

In 1976, about 40 percent of high-school seniors said they had read at least six books for fun in the previous year, compared with 11.5 percent who hadn’t read any. By 2022, those percentages ...

The answer is high-school English. More than any literary prize or celebrity book club, the school syllabus shapes American reading. This year alone, roughly seventeen million students will take ...

CARY. A Wake County school committee has rejected a parent’s request to remove the book “The Kite Runner” from the high school English curriculum.

In the English class he taught before becoming a dean last year at Bentonville High School in Arkansas, students engaged with plays, poetry and articles but read just one book together as a class. “At ...

Elementary and secondary school librarians across the district agreed to pull books labeled "mature," a district spokeswoman said. But Georgetown High School Librarian Susan Cooper, 54, refused to ...

The announcement comes after the district threatened to discipline a Georgetown High School librarian who had refused to pull 150 copies of books for review.

Books sit on shelves in the Selah High School library Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024, in Selah, Wash.

Carroll County’s school board followed recommendations from its Curriculum Council in rejecting four books from high school English classroooms and including 47 others slated for a variety of… ...