Like many secondary English/language arts teachers, I strive for a balance of whole-class texts—including novels and other genres—and allowing students the choice of what to read. The interplay ...

[In this guest post, Derek Bruff returns to combine two great tastes that taste great together: WordPress and LMS-based reading quizzes. --JBJ] Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur likes to talk about ...

Those who worry about the reading habits of today’s college students can take heart: They may be reading more than is commonly thought. However, more than 40 percent of the time they spend reading is ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...