Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given ...

They have to move on quickly because of pressure for teachers to cram more into the curriculum, the teacher said. “It’s like ...

In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers focus instead on selected passages -- a concession to perceptions of shorter ...

Deep reading is essential to strengthen circuits in the brain tied to critical thinking skills, background knowledge — and, most of all, empathy, said Maryanne Wolf, a cognitive neuroscientist ...

(AP) - 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 ...

The curatorial statement for Alicia Ethridge’s show downstairs at The Parsonage talks about the liminality in her paintings ...

In Lafayette Square, the centerpiece of LaGrange, it is still the 1890s. As I walk the entirety of the red-bricked circular ...