Michael Morpurgo backs call to ensure poorer children have access to books
Leading children’s author says deprived children in UK are missing out on lifetime of reading for pleasure
We should cherish handwriting: the scribbled, the scrawled, the stubbornly jotted
Our communications lose character when we give up putting pen to paper. It’s hard to imagine an Auden poem celebrating the arrival of the night email
Reading print improves comprehension far more than looking at digital text, say researchers
A study from the University of Valencia found that print reading could boost skills by six to eight times more than digital reading
Jon Nixon obituary
Other lives: Academic interested in intellectual history and prolific author of books including on Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg
Penguin Random House launches high schoolers’ award to combat book bans
The publisher’s $10,000 Freedom of Expression prize invites teens to write about a banned book that changed their life, against a backdrop of rising censorship
Black headteachers in UK say pupils crying out for ‘people who look like them’
Letters To a Young Generation: Aspiring school leaders book aims to encourage Black teachers to pursue leadership positions
Haters gonna hate … but stars like Taylor Swift can help to make literature pop
I teach the megastar’s lyrics. Adding contemporary material to school curriculums won’t dumb down – it will inspire, says academic Elly McCausland
Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure
More than £3,000 raised to keep the Student – founded in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh University – going
Anthony Stevens obituary
Analyst and psychiatrist who proposed a science of human nature that embraced psychology, anthropology and medicine
‘If we don’t teach kids about consent, the internet will’: Natasha Devon on the importance of sex education
The mental health campaigner’s new book tackles sex and relationships through the eyes of a 16-year-old. In the face of a backlash against inclusive sex ed in schools she explains why we have to keep the conversation open
‘We still make judgments from the way people talk’: Rob Drummond decodes accent prejudice
As a new book explores stereotypes that are socialised into us, 11 readers also reflect on the way they speak
‘Eating away at democracy’: book bans in US public schools rise by a third in a year
According to a new study by Pen America, there were 3,362 instances of book bans in school classrooms and libraries – with more than 40% of all cases occurring in Florida
Texas teacher fired for showing Anne Frank graphic novel to eighth-graders
Move comes as education laws restricting teaching of race, sexuality and other topics are being implemented across the US
Looking round a school library, I saw something I can’t get out of my mind
I was shocked to find a book for children whose parents are in prison. But I’m glad someone had the compassion to write it
Most parents want more time reading to young children, study shows
1,000-parent survey also found 33% lack the confidence to read to their child, despite not seeing the activity as a chore