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.

The Internet has ruined high-school writing. Write the line on the board five hundred times like Bart Simpson. Remember and internalize it. Intone it in an Andy Rooney-esque grumble. I've heard ...

My 10-year-old son and I communicate by text message on the nights that his mother has custody. Usually, he’s asking me for technical support because there is a problem with his laptop.

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“When you are typing, the same simple movement of your fingers is involved in producing every letter, whereas when you’re writing by hand, you immediately feel that the bodily feeling of ...

In what came to be known as the kids-for-cash scandal, Mark Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, shut down a county-run juvenile detention center and accepted $2.8 million in illegal ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. ‘He walked quickly back to the house.’ Simple sentences are important for making clear points. Be careful though ...

Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times Opinion newsletter in 2023 ...

I n the spring of 2004, I began what is now my second novel, Brotherless Night.Partway through 2022, I finished it. This span, almost two decades, is also nearly half my life, and most of those ...