Rubrics are one of the most useful assessment tools a teacher can have. A well-designed rubric tells students exactly what ...

A good buddy of mine tried to use the recent cold snap to make a claim that global warming is a liberal hoax. He got annoyed ...

Some critics and physicians said Elizabeth Bruenig’s account of a mother confronting a child’s death from measles felt misleading once they learned the story was reported fiction.

Elizabeth Bruenig: It is a hypothetical account of a very real phenomenon based on careful reporting. I would place it somewhere on the creative nonfiction spectrum.

Jaipur, India, Feburary’2026: Fourteen-year-old Vivaan Agarwal from Jaipur, India, has been announced as the Junior Winner of The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition (QCEC) 2025, the world’s oldest ...

Fifth graders from East Grand School got a firsthand look at how a court trial works at the Houlton District Courthouse by taking part in a mock trial.

The triumph of vice in American life--the haze of marijuana in our cities, the gambling apps pulsing in so many young male ...

The AI’s responses were intriguing; I affirmed its continued use as an analytical partner, a digital hevruta, while remaining mindful of its contaminated knowledge. Note that my earlier articles ...

If IV opioids are in short supply, who gets pain relief — a teenager in agony with a crushed leg or an 80-year-old dying from ...

Quote of the day: Blaise Pascal, who lived from 1623 to 1662, made lasting contributions to probability theory, fluid ...

Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

Fourth-grade ELA teacher Teetee Braxton, a 23-year educator at Warrenton Elementary, is up for Educator of the Year for her ...