Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. As the coordinator for an English-learner program, Lisa Hoelmer walks a fine line. She ...

What gets taught in English classes remains among the most hot-button of all curriculum topics in schools, with some in the field criticizing the lack of diversity in selected texts—and others, ...

Six students at Stoughton High School received the spam texts Thursday, according to police. "This particular text, in part, notifies the recipient that they have been "selected to pick cotton at the ...

Alex Bacalja is affiliated with the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English, and is Victoria's delegate to the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. Debates about what books ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given detailed chapter summaries for every novel they discussed, and teachers ...

This summer, we asked you to tell us about the books you read in high school that profoundly affected you. It turns out you had a lot to share. More than 1,100 of you wrote back to tell us about the ...

Last December, Moby-Dick made one of my students gasp. It wasn’t the first time this had happened (weird book), but nothing about the text itself produced the response. For the final project in my ...

We’re asking because the reading scores of American 12th graders are at record lows. By Dana Goldstein When you were in high school, did your English teacher assign you full books to read from ...

To kick-start Hispanic Heritage Month, students at Brashear High School festooned the building’s south wing corridors with ...