replace a mural, taken from And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, because three children’s authors complained about the...

Is The Cat in the Hat Racist? asks Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week. In honor of Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the...

The 74 is running excerpts from the book. “Schools work better when their leaders have the autonomy to run their schools; when they are...

The Education of Eva Moskowitz, a memoir by Success Academy founder, describes her evolution from charter skeptic to crusader. Moskowitz...

Lord of the Flies, beloved of high school English teachers and nobody else, was turned into not-very-good movies in 1963 and again in...

Many more students are getting extra time to complete the SAT, primarily due to learning disability diagnoses. Is the SAT still valid?,...

Students are obedient achievers in a “military-like education system driven by high-stakes testing, with teachers posting rankings in...

Her goal, she writes in Reading With Patrick, was to “teach American history through black literature.” The book “could be the most...

Bob Dylan’s Nobel speech — he gave it just in time to collect the $900,000 literature prize — pays tribute to Buddy Holly, folk music and...

Here’s a “tastefully offensive” version of a Dr. Seuss’ classic, Horton Hears a Who. #DrSeuss #Horton #ThugNotes

Educators are teaching reading wrong, argues Mark Seidenberg, a University of Wisconsin neuroscientist, in Language at the Speed of...

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...