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High School Reading

The Role of Fiction in the High School English Language Arts Classroom

Susan Pimentel | Posted 02.10.2013 | Home
Susan Pimentel

Said plainly, stories, drama, poetry, and other literature account for the majority of reading that students will do in the high school ELA classroom.

No More 'Catcher In The Rye'

Posted 12.14.2012 | Home

Concern is growing among teachers and parents that literary classics will go the way of the dinosaurs under a set of new national curricular standards...

9 Books You Should Have Read In High School

Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.28.2012 | Books
Madeleine Crum

I packed my bags for college having read every single one of Shakespeare's plays and Twain's novels, but not knowing who Jorge Luis Borges or Doris Lessing were. This is a huge problem.

Student Turns To Yahoo! Answers For Book Summary, Gets Schooled By Its Author

Posted 10.14.2012 | Home

As academic year is beginning at schools across the country, some students are scrambling to finish their summer assignments before the first day of c...

The Beauty in Assigned Reading

Alexis Jane Torre | Posted 06.25.2012 | Teen
Alexis Jane Torre

The true beauty of assigned reading is that it forces us to go out of our comfort zones. It allows us hear about different cultures and times, keeping our minds open to new opinions and perspectives.

American High Schoolers Are Reading 5th-Grade Level Books

Posted 03.23.2012 | Home

High school students today are reading books intended for children with reading levels far below those appropriate for teens, according to a recent re...

Lucas Kavner

Vonnegut Library And ACLU Respond To Missouri School's Book Banning

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 10.05.2011 | Books

In response to the Republic, Mo., school board's controversial decision last week to remove "Slaughterhouse-Five" from its high school library and cur...

10 Books You Really Should Have Read In High School

msn.com | Jennifer Worick | Posted 10.02.2011 | Books

High-schoolers often have to slog through classics when they’d rather be hanging out with their friends or doing just about anything else. You might...

Students Sound Off: High School Senior Believes Graduating Starts With A Love Of Reading

The Huffington Post | Karen Wisniewski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

"Students Sound Off," is an ongoing student blogger contest aimed at providing students a loud and clear voice in the education debate presented by Hu...