"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...

I agree 100% - whole books, please. Thank you, Natalie Wexler! Beyond Excerpts www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

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...

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...

Does listening to a book count as reading? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

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...

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...

The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...

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-...

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!

"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...

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...

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...

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...

A case for the power of children's literature to save us all. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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...

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-...

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...

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.

"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.

I fear teachers will stop assigning writing altogether.

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...

Yes,yes, yes!

Elizabeth Acevedo guest edited the current issue of Poetry magazine. The poems she chose are for and by teenagers whose lives are full of "firsts." It's a beautiful collection not only for students but also for the youth within us all. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

California English deadline January 10, "Challenged and Challenging Texts & Teaching." More information at www.cateweb.org

Looking for your next book club selection? Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium is a page-turner with lots to talk about. A health resort horror story! Echoes of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/b...

A wonderful opportunity!

A perfect article to read alongside Erin Entrada Kelly's wonderful middle school novel The First State of Being. Y2K Bug Was a No-Show www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/i...

Ground-breaking thinking about assessment

What a loss for the world. She gave of herself her whole life long. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...

Hard to know what to think about this.

And maybe let students keep one that they love to add to their home library ❤️

There’s nothing more important than getting books into students’ hands…and homes!

Check out @mrschureads.bsky.social's book LOUDER THAN HUNGER and the rest of the @nytimes.com Best Children's books of 2024! Purchase at bookelicious.com with code CYBERMONDAY - ends today! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/b...

Attended a writing conference where I was reminded that literacy is critical to democracy and given a wonderful list of books to read. 📚 Thank you, @caroljago.bsky.social!

What if we let students choose 2 or 3 books from the classroom library to borrow over winter break?

Seems to me that we are at a tipping point with the use of AI for student writing.

It shouldn’t be a crime to assign reading over the holidays.

Teach 1984? The Book Censor's Library would make a perfect pairing. Would also pair well with Fahrenheit 451.

One concept I'd love to see more widely popularized is the Jólabókaflóðið (Christmas book flood) from Iceland. Buy books for everyone you know! Get books from everyone you know! It's a flood! This is basically how I operate anyway but I like that in Iceland there's a word for it.

Children need more than butterflies and rainbows in the books they read.

Thinking of teaching Percival Everett's James? This teachers guide by Dr. Kim Parker offers insightful and practical help. assetbucketpublic.7169.prh.com/9780/385/550...