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.

Universities can enhance diversity by giving an admissions break to disadvantaged students of all races. It's legal and it's good politics.

Good, old-fashioned printed textbooks are valuable learning guides.

To be more "boy-friendly," a Baltimore boys' school added free play, student-run clubs and chances to socialize before classes start.

How do teachers get the attention of easily distracted "digital natives?"

Few teenagers read for fun regularly, and many don't read for school either, writes Natalie Wexler on Minding the Gap. We're "becoming a...

Explicit teaching works better than student-centered learning.

English teachers don't teach many novels because students won't do the reading on their own.

"A lot of Americans have kids in public schools," writes Eduwonk Andrew Rotherham. " They want normal ." They don't want sexualized...

When a Pennsylvania school board flipped from Republican to Democratic control, some policies changed -- but many did not.