When Bryn A. Williams, an English teacher at Burnaby Central High School in Canada, gave his class a creative writing assignment, he expected a range of imaginative responses with distinct personal ...

Every year, prospective college students stress over the application essay. They wonder what to write about, how they should write and whether the essay makes a difference. Local college admissions ...

The 2026-2027 Common App essay prompts have been confirmed, so if you are in the high school Class of 2027, what are you waiting for? Now is the time to start drafting your Common App essay.With that ...

The 43rd president of the United States launched his blog on the site Feb. 16 with a 1,500-word tribute to another George: President George Washington. “Few qualities have inspired me more than ...

Leaning on the scorer's table, a crowd of a couple of hundred sounded like thousands. For the first time since his testicular cancer diagnosis in Oct. 2025, Nikola Topic checked into a basketball game ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Oklahoma City Thunder prospect Nikola Topic made his NBA G League debut after recovering from a major knee injury and undergoing cancer treatment. Topic had seven points and seven ...

Off Limits is a podcast series that explores topics that are sometimes perceived as “taboo” in the academic workplace, including religion, sizeism, addiction, coming out as LGBTQ+, activism and civil ...

A college junior's essay and the targeted firing of a trans teacher. I primarily teach freshmen high school students, and any attempt to get them to write feels akin to trying to bathe a feral cat.

Reading and writing were always my favorite subjects when I was in school, and I can still remember when I was taught that a proper paragraph had five sentences in it. It was probably around fourth ...

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...