by Derek Spencer Original photo by viviandnguyen_ @flickr.com Many of you have begun the school year already and met your new stu...

by Derek Spencer English is a dynamic, versatile language, but even so there are some circumstances and emotional states that English l...

by Derek Spencer The sound of a word can conjure all sorts of feelings. Sometimes the sound of a word evokes the emotion its meaning c...

by Derek Spencer Good news for grammar sticklers everywhere: evidence suggests that companies with few grammatical mistakes in their pr...

by Derek Spencer Our friends over at Actively Learn  retweeted this link to a blog post written by Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton. It's fu...

by Derek Spencer Citizens of the Internet seem to be up in arms about what happens when you enter "define literally" into Go...

by Derek Spencer The Common Core State Standards emphasize nonfiction texts more heavily than many past standards, and many of the exe...

by Derek Spencer I've always found idioms fascinating. The idea of a bank of figurative statements that an entire culture (by and l...

by Derek Spencer Ever wanted to "play" Hamlet as if it were a choose-your-own-adventure-style book? Well, Ryan North's...

by Derek Spencer This is an interesting interview  with James Paul Gee, author of What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and ...