Novels are a large part of FVHS’s English classes, yet in world language classes, books play a very small part of the curriculum, and the classes focus on more short stories or texts. So why are there ...

Every January, Nashville teacher Joel Bezaire reads The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time aloud to his students. Sounds pretty standard, right? It would be — for an English class. But ...

According to some teachers and college professors, children aren’t reading as many whole books anymore. But just how widespread is this purported trend, and what does it mean for students’ literacy ...

Not-so-great expectations: Students are reading fewer books in English class “There was a trend, it happened when COVID hit, to stop reading full-length novels because students were in trauma; we were ...

There is little more difficult than trying to engage a whole class of students in reading a novel that is a poor match for the group. There are things teachers can do to influence the experience in ...

As a child of working-class Miami, Robin Brooks noticed the vast range in wealth among the people who lived there, from the poor to the millionaires. She didn’t yet know to attribute this disparity to ...

Since class war first appeared in radical thought during the final decades of the eighteenth century, it has continuously evolved through an exchange of ideas between political activity and literary ...

For three decades at Columbia Journalism School, Sam Freedman has encouraged students to try long-form narratives. His brand of tough love has paid dividends. By Emma Goldberg The night before the ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given ...