Teachers at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Washington, voted in February to remove "To Kill a Mockingbird" from required reading material for ninth graders, while still allowing teachers to teach the ...

The first day of class has an immemorial feel to it, an air of familiar routines eternally renewed. It’s just about noon on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, the start of spring semester. I am standing at the ...

Let me say right away that this post will focus on an exercise I’ve used in my literature classes. I think (and hope) the idea could be useful to folks in other disciplines as well. Let me say right ...

“What makes good children’s literature?” This is an evolving question that was first posed at the beginning of last fall semester in Eun Chong Yang’s ENG 262 “Children’s Literature” course. Yang, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract French teachers are facing lowering enrollments and student demands for marketable language skills. As a result of these trends, the study of ...

Roll over, Shakespeare, and tell Jane Austen the news: Heavy metal is coming to school. Martin Jacobsen is teaching a new English course at West Texas A&M University called Introdution to Literature: ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Kentucky English professor Peter Kalliney provided opening remarks for his lecture on how Cold War politics shaped literature from ...

Twice a year, in courtrooms across Massachusetts, regular proceedings are temporarily put on hold for graduation ceremonies. Recently in Dorchester District Court, Judge David Weingarten opened the ...

Yannick Thoraval is a member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Yannick Thoraval and Jill Parris also worked together on the project, Home Truths: An Anthology of Refugee and Migrant Writing.