You can go to the Best Sentences of 2023 here and of 2024 here. Those collections, like this one, wouldn’t exist without your ...

List making is ultimately a forward, affirmative act — the wish to impose order on a chaotic world. In that spirit, we ...

For all their yelling about participation trophies and people receiving accolades they don’t deserve, conservatives will get all up in arms over a college student’s poorly written essay. Now, after ...

(TNS) — A student I like turns in an essay. (She won me over because she brings “Crime and Punishment” to class, and her last name is Russian, which makes me think of the great-grandparents I never ...

Journal Editorial Report: MIT rejects the President’s college ‘compact.’ In the weeks leading up to a Dec. 3 deadline, eighth-graders across New York City will submit their applications online for ...

For decades now, professors have been complaining about the futility of asking students to write term papers, otherwise known as a research paper. In theory, research papers teach students how to ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Dr. Bruce Farber, chief of public health and epidemiology at Northwell Health. As a physician who has dedicated his career to infectious diseases and public ...

The recent trend of platforming certain right-wing opinion pieces at Education Week is both disturbing and dangerous in this moment in history. To be clear, our profession and the public at large ...

I used to believe I taught the one genre that artificial intelligence couldn’t touch. For 15 years, I’ve guided college students through the deeply human work of personal narrative, helping them ...

Students typically fill out the “Common App,” which is accepted by more than 1,000 colleges and universities. Most of the questions are straightforward, with the exception of the Activities section ...