Good picture books aren't simple.

Teachers know how kids learn, the curriculum builds knowledge, students read great books and practice writing.

"Read books that have no interest in your identity" and "wrestle with facts that don't care how they make you feel," says University of Austin president Carlos Carvalho.

If teachers assign challenging "whole" books, will students do the reading?

"Huckleberry Finn" is disappearing from high school reading lists: It's too difficult to teach.

Read the whole book.

Reading is a niche hobby like growing orchids. Most people can't pay attention long enough to read books.

"Decolonize the stacks," says the American Library Association. Viewpoint neutrality supports racism and fascism.

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.