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Emily Skoczen is one of 20 educators to receive the 2025 Delaware Valley Excellence in Teaching Award, presented by the ...
The Maltz Museum in Beachwood honored 32 finalists at its 17th annual Stop the Hate Youth Speak Out and Youth Sing Out awards ...
Stephanie Pacheco, a student at Borough of Manhattan Community College, wrote “Dear CUNY” to celebrate the value New York’s ...
The proudest moment in my career was giving my English teacher signed copies of my books. She was the one who taught me how to write.
Jean Prokott—a decade-long Century High School English teacher, the city’s third Poet Laureate, a recent recipient of a $50K ...
We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: maybe because it came as an unexpected gift from a friend or loved one, or in ...
For National Poetry Month, I’ve curated a playlist of seven songs that represent poetic devices like allusion, irony and rhyme. I call it “the wordplaylist.” Prepare to be taken back to middle school ...
Poetry combined with hip-hop, classical and pop music has young poets competing for prizes from $100 to $1,000 at this year’s ...
Nearly 350 visiting secondary students and 33 teachers representing 13 junior high and high schools from across the state ...
In Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance,” the pirate king interrupts the action by suddenly declaring “What, we ask, ...