Students should tackle complex, well-written "big" books.

If the love of reading includes the love of pizza, is that so bad?

Teaching classical literature, history and philosophy is considered conservative and lacking in diversity.

Bring back textbooks , write Sophie Winkleman and David James in The Spectator . In Britain, as in the U.S., schools have embraced online learning and "one-to-one" devices, they write. Students swipe and scroll between tabs, "some educational and some not," while the teacher tries to keep the class "on task." Textbooks "are slandered as boring compared with online resources, which offer video clips, audio, 3D modelling and other seductive 21st-century ‘essentials’," they writ

Reading the classics is hard work. It teaches students to focus, think and persevere.

Good teachers can give students the tools to read, understand and appreciate classic books.

A sexed-up movie version of "Wuthering Heights" is sending book sales soaring, and book clubs buzzing.

Classic books, poems, speeches, stories -- and Bible passages -- are on Texas' new K-12 reading list.

Dump the classics and assign "accessible" books that teens might enjoy reading, argues a former English teacher.

Reading "One Big Book" over a semester won't be too hard, English professors tell college students. It's "deep reading."

Reading excerpts in English class, but few whole books, leaves many unprepared to read "lengthy or complex texts" in college.

The more time students spend on screens the less they learn, argues neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath.

To protect teens from digital addiction, parents must take charge.

Teachers should teach students how to read grade-level books instead of matching them with texts at their comfort level, says literacy scholar Timothy Shanahan.

Libraries celebrate "banned" books that are widely available, but help readers access right-wing books.

If students don't learn facts, they won't be able to understand what they read or think deeply or critically.

Simplistic, heavily political YA books turn students off to reading.

English teachers still teach classics, but think students relate more to "diverse" young-adult books.

Parental rights to control their children's upbringing apply to progressives, not just to religious parents.

Parents' rights won a 6-3 victory in the U.S. Supreme Court: Parents can opt out of gay and transgender lessons that contradict their religious beliefs.