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High school students are spending more of time reading, apparently because of changes in the district’s English curriculum, a survey of freshman language arts students shows.
The curriculum changes apparently have made English a more appealing subject, school officials said.
A survey done in September 1992 showed that students had read about 1 1/2 novels for pleasure during the previous six months. By June 1993, survey results showed students had increased their average to almost five books. In answering the statement, “If I didn’t have to go to school, I wouldn’t,” most students were undecided in September, said Janell Cleland, a Mundelein teacher who wrote the survey. By June, the survey showed students strongly preferred to be in school.
