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

Take a peek into the library at Burlingame High School, ... No one is reading a book. According to school records, only about 50 books were checked out by students during the 2023 fall semester.

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 ...

So this week, we continue to make the case for why reading books in high school is great for your life outside of school. You’ll hear from more of our Atlantic colleagues—and from listeners ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, teens read three times as many books as today. In 1980, 60% of high school seniors reported that they read a newspaper, magazine or book on a daily basis for pleasure; by 2016 that ...

I was assigned David Copperfield as summer reading leading up to my junior year of high school. The book’s claim to serve as an introduction to Dickens is strong enough: It’s a quintessential ...

Mandatory reading isn't always everyone's favorite kind of reading. Everyone has that one book that they remember slogging through in high school English class (and usually that book was The ...

There have been seven books suspended from Highland Park schools. The action was taken because a group of parents wanted them off school reading lists. They say the content isn't age appropriate.

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 ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fl.a (CBS12) — A book on the high school reading list in the Palm Beach County School system has angered and surprised some parents. Kids are given lots of books to read at school.

I was thinking about the book that stuck with me the longest, Portnoy’s Complaint, the Philip Roth book, and I read it in high school. We had read some Philip Roth in the class, and they’d ...