America has a home crisis. When people do not believe they have a secure emotional, physical and spiritual home, they become risk averse, stagnant, cynical, anxious and aggressive. - David Brooks www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...
Opinion | Time to Say Goodbye
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I love Candace Fleming's books. So exciting to see her recognized with the Margaret A. Edwards award!
A perfect example of just how lively a close reading of a poem can be.(Literary analysis shouldn't be painful.) And a lovely introduction to William Blake! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
What Kind of Lover Are You? This William Blake Poem Might Have the Answer. (Gift Article)
William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.
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A call to action from David Brooks. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/o...
Opinion | The Sins of the Moderates
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"Yet every book you have is a story of who you are and who you were when you acquired it. And who you became when you read it. It’s part of you, your present and your history. We may think we finish with books, but they don’t finish with us" Roger Rosenblatt. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Opinion | Before You Toss That Book …
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I agree 100% - whole books, please. Thank you, Natalie Wexler! Beyond Excerpts www.aft.org/ae/winter202...
Beyond Excerpts
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Parents aren't reading to their children partly because of their own experiences with reading that focused on test prep. www.the74million.org/zero2eight/w...
Why Parents Aren’t Reading to Kids, and What It Means for Young Students
A recent study found less than half of children are read to daily. The consequences are serious for early learners who enter school unprepared.
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Teaching Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was always such a delight. And Leopoldstadt would be an excellent addition to any AP Lit curriculum. What a huge contribution Stoppard made to theatre arts.. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/t...
The Language of Tom Stoppard, Ablaze With Energy and Urgency
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Does listening to a book count as reading? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
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Teach Hamlet? Here's a text for exploring the evergreen nature of Shakespeare. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/a...
The Sound of ‘Ophelia’
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An extraordinary poet. I need to read more of his work. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate
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"Withholding books from students is inhumane. The best tool for improved academic performance is engagement – students learn more when they become engrossed in stories. Many students master test-taking skills but lose the window for learning to enjoy reading." www.the74million.org/article/engl...
English Teachers Work to Instill the Joy of Reading. Testing Gets in the Way
Perrillo and Newman: The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.
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The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking
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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction winner Percival Everett (James, Erasure, The Trees) is coming to the NCTE Annual Convention in Denver. Don’t miss your chance to hear him speak and get your book signed at #NCTE25 in November! Register now: https://convention.ncte.org/registration/
Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w... "Discussing and reflecting on fiction was linked to better mental health and social capabilities, including the ability to perceive nuances in interpersonal relationships." Time for book clubs!
Fewer People Are Reading for Fun, Study Finds
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"Long-form literacy is not innate but learned, sometimes laboriously." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
Opinion | Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good
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A perfect storm is brewing for reading. AI Can Make Reading Books Feel Obsolete – And Students Have A Lot To Lose www.civilbeat.org/2025/08/ai-c...
AI Can Make Reading Books Feel Obsolete
Artificial intelligence is dramatically changing how people engage with books or other kinds of writing.
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Summer Reading Can Help Boost Literacy. Why Don’t High Schools Require It? www.the74million.org/article/summ...
Summer Reading Can Help Boost Literacy. Why Don’t High Schools Require It?
Cohen: Survey of D.C.-area high schools shows few assign books to incoming 9th graders to read during vacation. That's a lost opportunity.
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California English call for manuscripts: Contemporary Culture in the Classroom. Deadline April 1. We welcome manuscripts from everywhere. Artwork by Elena Megalos
"The success of novel instruction hinges not just on the quality of the books we teach but on the intellectual culture we surround them with." hechingerreport.org/teacher-voic...
TEACHER VOICE: Instead of assuming that kids won't read novels, give them skills to defend their analysis - The Hechinger Report
Reading novels puts students in community with complex ideas they can explore across weeks. Novels are powerful pedagogy because they are hard and time-consuming to teach. A good curriculum rises to t...
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I will never stop advocating for reading whole books. Lots of them. Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
Opinion | Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives.
Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.
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A case for the power of children's literature to save us all. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
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Join me, @caroljago.bsky.social, David Steiner & Carey Wright for a discussion of the latest NAEP reading results, presented by the National Assessment Governing Board, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy. Feb. 4, 10 a.m. Eastern US education.jhu.edu/events/the-n...