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The Conroe ISD board voted early Wednesday to remove the 1999 novel “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” from its curriculum for high school students. The book is remaining available in school libraries.

East Valley literature teachers have bad news for Mark Twain, Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Their classics "Huckleberry Finn," "A Tale of Two Cities" and "The Scarlet Letter" are no longer ...

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 ...