Explicit instruction in how tone is conveyed in writing helps students become more thoughtful readers and more precise, ...

Who won the Civil War? Is your answer based on “facts” or your, or someone else’s, interpretation? Last month the State Board of Education reviewed and voted upon social studies standards, which ...

One of the many reasons I was happy not to go to the American Historical Association annual meeting is that I am starting a new job at a very different institution than the one at which I have worked ...

Teachers across the country are now working to implement the Common Core State Standards in English/language arts, which require that all students learn to make interpretations of texts. The standards ...

(1) THE problem with which Dr. Richards deals is one that receives attention in the recent Spens report on secondary schools. The pedantry and formalism of the traditional teaching of grammar and of ...

College and university faculty are expected to be excellent teachers. In public, college leaders emphasize to potential students and their parents that at their institution, teaching matters above all ...

For 63-year-old Victor Moreno of San Ramon, it was too many mind- numbing years as a commercial insurance broker. Garlin Cephas, 56, decided being a Chevron computer executive wasn't making sense for ...