Book reading in schools has fallen off severely and, in many classrooms, nearly disappeared, but our model legislation, called the BOOKS Act, can ensure that kids start reading full books again, ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

I recognize I usually start with some kind of funny story or joke, but this is definitely not one. It's a simple question: Has any policy ever looked more politically dunderheaded in immediate ...

Some high school teachers and college professors have been ringing alarm bells about what they see as a troubling trend in ...

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school, Rose Horowitch wrote in the November 2024 issue. I’m an English teacher at a private college-preparatory school, and much of ...

A few months into my first year of teaching middle-school English in Santa Fe, I realized that a handful of my students were not reading books. I had carefully structured the class time so there would ...

Digital books have grown in popularity over the past decade, but more Americans still read books in print than in digital formats. Overall, 75% of U.S. adults say they have read all or part of at ...

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 ...