Reading Homer’s The Odyssey has long been a mainstay of high school English literature curricula. And yet it’s hard to imagine today’s typical high school student independently reading all 24 books ...

The Common Core has now been around long enough that it’s all that many of the students we teach in college have known, and ...

Andrew Newman has received funding from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the ...

For more than 15 years, Literature Live had been a cherished tradition at La Quinta High School, but like many occasions, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this milestone for some seniors. Last week ...

This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote back to tell us about the ...

Last month, Rose Horowitch wrote the article “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books,” which sparked a lot of debate. Professors told Horowitch that their students felt overwhelmed at the ...

How heartwarming it is to see a youth-led group like The Book Cradle Project actively promote child literacy in underserved ...