For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with ...

Three pairs of writers revised two 400- word passages from a high school history text in an effort to make the passages more comprehensible and more memorable. Two of the writers were text linguists, ...

“The Great Spring: Writing, Zen, and This Zigzag Life” By Natalie Goldberg. Shambhala, Boulder, 2016. 207 pages. $22.95. Many hold Natalie Goldberg in their hearts as their first, or perhaps most ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Barry Nelson has won the 2024 Saul Gass Expository Writing Award, given by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Nelson, Walter P.

Suppose you are a professor of pedagogy, and you assign an essay on learning styles. A student hands in an essay with the following opening paragraph: The construct of “learning styles” is problematic ...

If you’ve ever dreamt of giving up the day job to finally pen that vampire romance novel, you’re in luck. Edinburgh-based company Writers’ Essentials have launched a series of free creative writing ...