In her 14 years of teaching, she has never seen students this far behind in their reading. Teacher shortages and staffing issues in schools have been a hot topic for a while now, as more and more ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...