PHILADELPHIA — The sound of 100 voices speaking various languages bounced around the Catholic school gymnasium like a basketball. The diverse group of Northeast Philadelphia residents — some whose ...

In 2025, a group of Philadelphia high school students asked a question few adults consider: Where are young people actually welcome to be? To talk and connect with each other? Looking beyond home and ...

A Michigan lawmaker has introduced a bill to reintroduce cursive writing instruction in schools as an option. Proponents argue cursive connects students to history, improves cognitive function, and ...

Writing the dreaded English essay spikes anxiety for thousands of students, but is there a way for writing to boost students’ well-being instead? I wanted to know if a new approach to teaching ...

Research from Cambridge University shows that children begin forming money habits by age seven. This means the financial conversations you have with your kids now shape how they handle money for ...

Pamela Martin, 44, and her boyfriend Christopher O’Kane, 41, pleaded guilty to multiple charges including possession of an extreme pornographic image Humberside Police (2) Pamela Martin, 44, and her ...

Themes of academic dread or nerdiness often crop up when writing comes to mind. Until college, I never truly considered the bigger picture: Why do we write, or more aptly, why should we? Even still, ...

It’s a phrase teachers hear too often, usually at the exact moment a writing task is assigned. For many students, the leap from understanding a concept to putting it on paper feels like an impossible ...

This year’s Drexel Writing Festival will feature celebrated authors, contemporary poets, distinguished editors and leading academics who take us on a deep, reflective dive. Join us between April 8 and ...

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed. As a professor at Harvard, I had B+ writers submitting essays with em dashes and Oxford commas, as if they had ...

I was early to the generative AI wave in higher education: I was among the first professors who teach writing to publish in an academic journal about generative AI and critical thinking, and I am now ...