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.

To offer a demanding, powerful curriculum to every child is not elitist. It is egalitarian.

Most English majors at two state universities in Kansas can't read and understand Dickens' Bleak House.

While millions of European children were in school -- mostly unmasked -- U.S. policymakers ignored the science, suppressed dissent and kept schools closed.

Religious parents want to opt their elementary students out of lessons on LGBT books. The Supreme Court will decide the case.