Next stop, War and Peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
The Secret to Getting Through Big, Dense, Difficult Books
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November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Next stop, War and Peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/m...
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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October 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Teach Hamlet? Here's a text for exploring the evergreen nature of Shakespeare. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/a...
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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September 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
An extraordinary poet. I need to read more of his work. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
"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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September 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
"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...
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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September 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
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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/
September 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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/
Why Are So Few Kids Reading for Pleasure? www.the74million.org/article/why-...
Why Are So Few Kids Reading for Pleasure?
Doomscrolling. Poor literacy instruction. Overscheduling. These are some of the reasons cited for a generational decline in students reading for fun.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Why Are So Few Kids Reading for Pleasure? www.the74million.org/article/why-...
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!
"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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August 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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!
"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!
"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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August 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"Long-form literacy is not innate but learned, sometimes laboriously." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
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 – 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.
www.civilbeat.org
August 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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 – And Students Have A Lot To Lose www.civilbeat.org/2025/08/ai-c...
A degree in English is evergreen. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
A degree in English is evergreen. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
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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August 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Summer Reading Can Help Boost Literacy. Why Don’t High Schools Require It? www.the74million.org/article/summ...
California English call for manuscripts: Contemporary Culture in the Classroom. Deadline April 1. We welcome manuscripts from everywhere.
Artwork by Elena Megalos
Artwork by Elena Megalos
March 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
California English call for manuscripts: Contemporary Culture in the Classroom. Deadline April 1. We welcome manuscripts from everywhere.
Artwork by Elena Megalos
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."
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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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March 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"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."
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I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Power and Paradox of a Sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks
Our critic A.O. Scott marvels at the power and paradox of a sonnet by Gwendolyn Brooks.
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February 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I Would Follow This Poem to Hell and Back www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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...
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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February 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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...
Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...
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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
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January 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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
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We must do better. These 4th grade reading scores are from students who will be in middle school next year.
New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery www.the74million.org/article/new-...
New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery www.the74million.org/article/new-...
New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery
Results from the Nation’s Report Card offer few positive signs, with reading performance slumping even since the heart of the pandemic.
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January 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We must do better. These 4th grade reading scores are from students who will be in middle school next year.
New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery www.the74million.org/article/new-...
New NAEP Scores Dash Hope of Post-COVID Learning Recovery www.the74million.org/article/new-...
Wondering about the achievement gap? On a 500-point scale, the lowest-performing students generally score about 100 points below the highest-performing students in 2024.
This should be a call to action for the nation.
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This should be a call to action for the nation.
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10 Takeaways from the Newly Released 2024 NAEP Results
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January 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Wondering about the achievement gap? On a 500-point scale, the lowest-performing students generally score about 100 points below the highest-performing students in 2024.
This should be a call to action for the nation.
www.nagb.gov/powered-by-n...
This should be a call to action for the nation.
www.nagb.gov/powered-by-n...
Absolutely delighted that Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being won the Newbery Award. I love this book. Science fiction with lots and lots of heart.
January 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Absolutely delighted that Erin Entrada Kelly's The First State of Being won the Newbery Award. I love this book. Science fiction with lots and lots of heart.
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"We’ve never been as rich as we are today. But because we’ve given up on some ambitious continuation of the egalitarian agenda of making the most powerful economic actors ... contribute to the public goods we need to fund, you have this nativist discourse of blaming migrants."
Opinion | Two of the World’s Leading Thinkers on How the Left Went Astray (Gift Article)
Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel debate the value of open borders and what we owe migrants.
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January 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"We’ve never been as rich as we are today. But because we’ve given up on some ambitious continuation of the egalitarian agenda of making the most powerful economic actors ... contribute to the public goods we need to fund, you have this nativist discourse of blaming migrants."
Teach Twelfth Night? Then you and your students will love Alexene Farol Follmuth's Twelfth Knight. Is it a rom-com? You betcha! But then so is Shakespeare's tale.
January 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Teach Twelfth Night? Then you and your students will love Alexene Farol Follmuth's Twelfth Knight. Is it a rom-com? You betcha! But then so is Shakespeare's tale.
I fear teachers will stop assigning writing altogether.
Just fundamentally do not and will never understand assigning writing that will not be read by another human and only be processed via AI feedback. What does that say to students about what writing is for and the meaning of the act?
January 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I fear teachers will stop assigning writing altogether.
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Only three weeks left to submit a proposal for #NCTE25!
The success of our marquee event relies on attendees’ incredible range of talents and subject matter expertise. Your practical knowledge could inform and inspire thousands of English language arts educators! convention.ncte.org/cfp-instruct...
The success of our marquee event relies on attendees’ incredible range of talents and subject matter expertise. Your practical knowledge could inform and inspire thousands of English language arts educators! convention.ncte.org/cfp-instruct...
NCTE 2025 Call for Proposal Instructions FINAL
Submit your proposal for the 2025 NCTE Annual Convention in Denver, November 20-23. Join educators in shaping the future of English language arts through collaboration and innovative teaching practice...
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January 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Only three weeks left to submit a proposal for #NCTE25!
The success of our marquee event relies on attendees’ incredible range of talents and subject matter expertise. Your practical knowledge could inform and inspire thousands of English language arts educators! convention.ncte.org/cfp-instruct...
The success of our marquee event relies on attendees’ incredible range of talents and subject matter expertise. Your practical knowledge could inform and inspire thousands of English language arts educators! convention.ncte.org/cfp-instruct...