F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel has spent years on high school reading lists. How are literature professors teaching it ...

The Great Gatsby published 100 years ago on April 10 and was a staple in high school curriculums. We look at how it's being taught in classrooms, in light of present day events, all these years later.

BBC special correspondent Katty Kay and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on kids, smartphones and whether anything has ...

The 'Walk in My Shoes' campaign founded by South Florida's former Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book turns 10 this year. While ...

NPR speaks with writer Kiese Laymon about his new children's book "City Summer, Country Summer," in which three Black boys ...

The Conference Board meeting Monday to approve a budget for the Webster County Assessor’s Office became heated with multiple members raising their voices, a member of the public challenging the ...

Two decades after Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court struck down a desegregation order—and paved the way for today’s ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Sixty years after he first began serializing it in the Yiddish press, and 42 years after publisher Alfred A. Knopf acquired ...

That's the novel approach about a half-dozen Des Moines Public Schools are taking to get kids to read — using vending machines to distribute books.

The proudest moment in my career was giving my English teacher signed copies of my books. She was the one who taught me how to write.