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...

The Bible is off the shelves at elementary and middle-school libraries in a suburban Utah district, after a parent's complaint, writes...

If Jayden was cutting school, failing classes and getting in fights, he might not want his parents to know. But his teacher wouldn't keep...

The American education system has turned away from academics and lost its way, says David Steiner, executive director of the Institute...

President Biden keeps talking about "book bans," writes Andrew Rotherham on Eduwonk. It's become "a nervous tic" for Education Secretary...

Skippyjon Jones, about a Siamese cat who thought he was a Chihuahua, was a huge hit when it came out in 2003, recalls James V. Shuls. His...

Jonathan Rosen's best friend was brilliant, even after he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic in his early 20s, he writes in his...

"Parental rights" advocates have a"dirty secret," charges Alyssa Rosenberg in the Washington Post. They're too lazy to teach their kids...