A few months ago, the English Department at my school found itself faced with a serious — but familiar — problem: the reading and writing that our students were doing was not relevant or rigorous ...

To help them succeed, the school — which last year enrolled about 500 high schoolers, roughly 80% of whom qualified for free or reduced-priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily ...

But Hackman also has another responsibility in class: developing students’ reading skills. For about 20 of the 80 minutes of almost every class, she engages her chemistry students in literacy skills, ...

The district restricted another 11 titles to high school juniors and seniors who have parent permission. Pinellas County resident Katie Harvey reads a passage from "Water for Elephants" to the ...

So I picked out Portnoy’s Complaint, and it was just an absolute revelation because when you’re in high school, you’re reading dutifully. Like, you’re trying to be a good literary citizen.

A West Valley High School Spanish teacher lost his job after reading a passage from “To Kill a Mockingbird” that contained a racial slur.

A speaker at a Florida school board meeting was removed for using vulgar language after reading aloud from a highly sexualized book available at the high school’s public library.

At Patterson High School in Baltimore, 77% of students tested at an elementary-school reading level at the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year.

This past year, the SAT reading section moved from using roughly 800-word passages, with many questions, to roughly 50- to 100-word paragraphs, with just one question.