What Students Should Read by Steven Wolk

"When looking at what students are required to read in school in 2010, it might as well be 1960. We need visionary educators who see bold purposes for school and who understand that what students read in school has profound, lifelong effects, both good and bad."

"In 1960, 26% of our information was from print, primarily books, newspapers, and magazines. Today, we’re reading more words, but only 9% are from print and 30% from computers (Bohn and Short 2009)."

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For quick reference books mentioned in the article under what kids should be reading include: The Hunger Games, Unwind, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Mexican Whiteboy, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Dairy Queen, Little Brother, Elsewhere, Flipped,The Graveyard Book, Heat, Leepike Ridge, Home, Voices in the Park, Planting the Trees of Kenya, American Born Chinese, The Arrival, I Kill Giants, A.D. New Orleans, Safe Area Gorazde, Make Lemonade, Monster, La Linea, Leviathan, Fallen Angels, Chains, Nasreen’s Secret School, A Dream of Freedom, Tasting the Sky, No Choirboy, The Omnivore’s Dilemma (young reader's edition), Alan’s War, Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships, Barefoot Gen, The Photographer, Banana, Slaves in the Family, Gang Leader for a Day, Nickel and Dimed, Enrique’s Journey, A Rumor of War, Long Way Gone, The Good Soldiers, Edward O. Wilson’s essay, “The Little Things That Run the World,” The Frog Scientist and other books in the “Scientists at Work” series, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, Clan Apis, The Manga Guide to Physics, Howtoons, The Secret Science Alliance, and Best American Nonrequired Reading series.