This is great. Thanks for that Great River Shakespeare Festival!

On this day in 1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge died of heart disease at the age of sixty-one. Decades removed from his masterworks, Coleridge ...

Check out this Prestwick House list of six world lit books you should teach this year.    It includes... True History of the Kelly Gang...

In a recent article from The Atlantic Daniel Willingham describes the tips and tricks of how to get kids excited to read even in the summe...

I've long thought that teachers should be getting more recognition and some basic societal perks. (Designated parking spaces?) Maybe thi...

Today, July 18th, is the official Nelson Mandela International Day. The UN chose this date (Mandela's birthday) in 2009 to honor the lif...

In the current issue of the New Yorker , reporter Rachel Aviv describes the calculated actions of a school that made the decision to help th...

Most parents want their child to spend some time reading this summer, but what is the best way to make this happen? According to a rece...

Nadine Gordimer was a novelist from South Africa who took on the issues of Apartheid in her writing. She won the Nobel Prize in 1991 f...