The Oct. 27, 2025, article “Novels vs. Excerpts: What to Know About a Big Reading Debate ” and related reporting about reading instruction resonated with me. I’m fortunate enough to spend time in ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

Re “Students Are Getting a Reader’s Digest of Books” (front page, Dec. 15): Kudos for calling attention to a troubling trend. Acknowledging the problem is the first step toward addressing it. The ...

“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 ...

On March 19, AEI’s Robert Pondiscio hosted a conversation with Doug Lemov of Teach Like a Champion, Mike Austin of Great Hearts Academies, and Kyair Butts of Baltimore City Public Schools about how ...