At a recent conference, an idea that would have been unremarkable a century ago and now sounds almost transgressive was floated: that all college students should read the Bible. Not necessarily ...

According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

Before college teaches you how to dissect literature in a classroom, these books teach you how to live with literature. They are strange, layered, often hilarious, and quietly brilliant. books that do ...

Texas is once again at the center of a familiar but unresolved debate about literacy, culture, and the proper role of schools. A proposed statewide list of books, plays, poems, and other literary ...

Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to master and integrate multiple skills, from mapping abstract symbols to the right speech sounds to understanding what all the words mean.