Instead, he had students grading themselves and writing self-reflections.” Stommel also found inspiration in CU Boulder English Professor R L Widmann, with whom he co-taught courses on Shakespeare.

Molly Pollak was a middle and high school teacher. When she retired this year, former students gave her a book filled with their letters. It reads like a textbook for great teaching.

Opinion: I taught English in Iowa. Here's what I know about 'controversial' books. When I think about books pulled from library shelves or from classrooms, tossed into a garbage bin or even burned ...

Salomone’s South Africa chapter is among the most interesting in the book. Along with Afrikaans, English is one of South Africa’s 11 official languages, and even though only 9.6 percent of the ...

English students at Hope dive deep into literature of every kind and learn how to improve their writing with masters of the craft. Through composition, creative writing ... The book “Chasing Beauty: ...

Books about young Black and brown people, texts where her students could see and celebrate themselves. She had more than 900 books in her classroom but no list of what could stay.

When was the last time you read a book cover to cover? For me, a prospective English concentrator, it was last week. But ask my peers in other concentrations and you’re more likely to get a shrug.