Books
Learn more about assigned books students read for school and how teachers use books in their curriculum
Special Education
Video
A Student Wrote a Book About Her Learning Disability. Now, She Has Advice for Teachers
Zoe Kozina, 17, is the author of Your Beautiful Mind, a children’s book published this year.
Curriculum
In Their Own Words
Why I Kept Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird When Others Wouldn't
A recently retired English teacher explains why she continued to teach the classic novel after it was challenged in her district.
Reading & Literacy
Scholastic Reverses Controversial Decision to ‘Segregate’ Diverse Books
Four public school librarians and two experts said Scholastic's reversal on making diverse books optional is a step in the right direction.
Reading & Literacy
Scholastic Book Fairs, Explained: How They Work and Who Benefits
What you need to know about what students can find at book fairs, who organizes them, who selects the books for them, and more.
Reading & Literacy
Scholastic Says Schools Can Exclude Diverse Titles From Book Fairs
The separate collection is a response to states with laws restricting learning materials on race, gender, and sexuality.
Reading & Literacy
Letter to the Editor
No, Book Bans Are Never ‘Reasonable’
Our stories and histories deserve to be told without censorship, says this letter to the editor.
Reading & Literacy
Challenges to Books in Public Schools Aren't Slowing Down
As book bans continue to increase in 2023, experts say it’s crucial for educators, parents, and students to fight bans in their districts.
Equity & Diversity
Researchers Find Need for More High Quality, Culturally Relevant Curriculum
A new report from The Education Trust examines the limited complexity of representation in children's books deemed to be high quality.
Curriculum
Download
DOWNLOADABLE: Choosing Grade School Books With Complex Representation of People and Topics
A new tool from The Education Trust helps educators think deeply about what complex representation of people, cultures, and topics means.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
What Should We Really Make of Book Bans?
Opinions are divided on the significance of recent (and not-so-recent) efforts to remove certain books from schools.
Reading & Literacy
Opinion
Don’t Worry About 'Book Bans'
So-called “book bans” are a lot rarer—and more reasonable—than you might think, argue Max Eden and Jay P. Greene.
Federal
A Senate Committee Takes Up School Book Wars, Complete With Sharp Partisan Divisions
The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "book bans" included one Republican senator reading sexually explicit passages.
Reading & Literacy
An Iowa District Used AI to Figure Out Which Books to Ban
An Iowa school district used AI to decide which books to ban to comply with a state law that bans materials with depictions of sex.
Reading & Literacy
Is It Time to Retire 'Harry Potter'-Themed Classrooms and Libraries?
Author J.K. Rowling's comments on transgender people have left some educators uneasy about promoting the series.