Editor’s Note: Regular readers of The Next 30 Years will already know Annika Hernandez, even if they haven’t yet seen her byline. She has been a frequent researcher, editor, and intellectual sounding ...

Asking students to dissect the motivations of a character in a book is doing more than teaching them about plot and characterization. This exercise also helps students learn to see different ...

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 teachers ...