If Texas links state reading tests to a state reading list, teachers will be motivated to focus on content, not isolated skills.

Classic books, poems, speeches, stories -- and Bible passages -- are on Texas' new K-12 reading list.

Reading "One Big Book" over a semester won't be too hard, English professors tell college students. It's "deep reading."

English teachers still teach classics, but think students relate more to "diverse" young-adult books.