Rebels and rule-breakers may be original thinkers who will change the world, writes teacher Ashley Lamb-Sinclair in The Atlantic. Albert...

learning myths from reality? asks NPR’s Anya Kamenetz. Go to the link to take a “learning myths quiz.” (I got a perfect score!) Ulrich...

A week after a Middlebury crowd disrupted Charles Murray’s speech, and sent a professor to the hospital with a concussion, feminist...

Authors and educators talked about the children’s book that influenced you the most at a writing conference, reports Education Week....

Five teen-agers who defaced a historic black schoolhouse in Virginia last year have been sentenced to read one book a month for the 12...

Edutopia’s list of 20 “indispensable” books for high schoolers is “dominated by perennials” like George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four,...

In The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, Daniel Connolly follows Isaias Ramos in his final year of...

In Lucinda Rosenfeld’s Class, which satirizes privileged, perfectionist Brooklynites, “parent is both a verb and a competitive sport,”...

“Six years after Common Core’s debut,” its critics “have produced enough books to collapse a sturdy bookshelf,” writes Fordham’s Robert...

Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity?, which will be introduced at some British primary schools, is — surprise! — causing controversy,...

More than 50 years ago, a Tulsa high school student wrote a novel about the conflict between “greasers” and rich kids. S.E. Hinton’s The...

If the main character of your children’s book is a slave, watch out, warns Meghan Cox Gurdon in the Wall Street Journal. It’s hard to...

Some 500 new words, phrases and senses have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary , including glam-ma, (glamorous grandma)...

Author Dan Gutman, known for his My Weird School series and a baseball time travel series, responded on Facebook to parent asking whether...