Adam Kotsko, who teaches humanities at a small liberal arts college, finds that even his best students are unprepared to read and...

College students have trouble reading anything long or complex, complains Adam Kotsko, in Slate. He's taught humanities classes in small...

Teach old books, argues Daniel Buck, author of author of What Is Wrong with Our Schools?, on Fordham's Flypaper blog. Yes the language...

A Maryland elementary school's library has colorful posters urging kids to read -- but not many books on the shelves, writes Theresa...

Muslim children won't be required to read LGBT books in elementary schools in St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, reports Mairead...

Mary Wood is teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates' memoir, Between the World and Me, in her AP English Language and Composition class in Chapin,...

"Professors here teach how to think, not "what to think," college tour guides claim. Don't believe them, writes Caitlin Flanagan in The...

For all the talk about school libraries under pressure to "ban books," the real issue is lack of balance, argues James Fishback in The...

It doesn't matter what kids read as long as they're reading, people often say. Maybe so. But for "developing readers," leisure reading...

Ninth-graders aren't reading To Kill a Mockingbird this year in Mukilteo, Washington, an affluent, mostly white town north of Seattle. ...

Halloween has been canceled at schools in New Jersey's South Orange-Maplewood School District. No costumes, no parades, no...

Cancel culture -- "campaigns to get people fired, disinvited, deplatformed, or otherwise punished" for dissenting from orthodox views --...

Rayna Freedman, who teaches fifth grade in Massachusetts, teachers her students how to apologize, reports Kara Newhouse for KQED's...

Middle schoolers who read at the first, second and third-grade level won't read "baby books" and can't read grade-level books, says...

Aymann Ismail thought book-banners were prudish hysterics, he writes on Slate. Then a librarian gave him a copy of one of the...

Books published before 2008 have been removed from school library shelves in a school district near Toronto, Canada, reports Nicole...

Religious parents -- Muslims, Christians (many of them Ethiopian) and Mormons -- have united in Maryland to protest new requirements that...

Illinois libraries that ban or restrict books for "partisan or doctrinal" reasons will lose state funding under a new law, reports Claire...

"Back to basics" education isn't enough, writes Gillian Richards on The American Conservative. "Some conservatives have responded to...

Which books should kids be reading, asks Robert Pondiscio. He talked to Casey Churchill, who runs Liberty Common School, a Colorado Core...