From the Civil War to the dawn of the new millennium, one book has held a secure spot in American classrooms: the basal reader. These anthologies of excerpts, poems, and other short works have been ...

How can educators transform reading into something students want to do rather than have to do? That’s the question our team of educators in the Oktibbeha County School District set out to answer when ...

Clarification: A previous version of this story had a different image. It has been updated for clarity. Walk into any kindergarten classroom this fall, and there’s a good chance students will be ...