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...
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.
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 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.
High school students today are reading books intended for children with reading levels far below those appropriate for teens, according to a recent re...
In response to the Republic, Mo., school board's controversial decision last week to remove "Slaughterhouse-Five" from its high school library and cur...
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," is an ongoing student blogger contest aimed at providing students a loud and clear voice in the education debate presented by Hu...