After exploring where ideas come from last week, I wondered a follow-up question: What fosters creative ideas and the writing ...

Elizabeth Gerling's family described the void the death of the 'heart and soul of Columbus Elementary School' left in their ...

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Student use of artificial intelligence has become so prevalent, high school and college educators say, that to assign writing ...

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Elena Bardin, a former teacher at the state’s juvenile detention center in Adair County, had a relationship with a teen student.

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For the past decade or so, I have worked with students to help them prepare essays for applications to America’s top colleges and universities. Many of my students have historically matriculated to ...

I t was getting toward the end of this recent semester, and I was at a loss. Either one of two things was happening: My freshman composition students’ writing had gotten mysteriously, miraculously, ...