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Four books including “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon, “Future Home of the Living God,” by ...
The answer is high-school English. More than any literary prize or celebrity book club, the school syllabus shapes American reading. This year alone, roughly seventeen million students will take ...
I was thinking about the book that stuck with me the longest, Portnoy’s Complaint, the Philip Roth book, and I read it in high school. We had read some Philip Roth in the class, and they’d ...
What happens when a progressive teacher from New England lands in the middle of Texas school politics? Longtime Geneva resident and award-winning educator Ellen Jo Ljung explores that question in ...
Trained on whole libraries of books, AI can tease out the leitmotifs of great authors, but what it produces ultimately amounts to poor imitation. It recalls that Good Will Hunting quote .
This isn’t the first time a local high school has discarded numerous books. Hundreds of classic books at Kelvyn Park High School were tossed out in 2021, according to Block Club Chicago.
Elementary and secondary school librarians across the district agreed to pull books labeled "mature," a district spokeswoman said. But Georgetown High School Librarian Susan Cooper, 54, refused to ...
Penguin Random House has partnered with the Baldwin family to launch the James Baldwin Award for Fiction, a creative writing prize for high school seniors, in honor of the writer and activist's ...
We are just two weeks into the Florida high school football season and it feels like we are just scratching the surface of what’s shaping up to becoming a very interesting 2024 campaign.
School officials at the time said that they had not received a formal request to reconsider the use of the book. Four years ago, the Indianapolis Public Library received a request to ban an erotic ...
CEO Sam Altman posted on X on Tuesday that OpenAI trained an AI that’s “good at creative writing,” in his words. But a piece of short fiction from the model reads like something straight out ...