Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...

Celebrate Pennsylvania’s culinary history with regional dishes tied to towns where tradition, craftsmanship, and flavor come ...

IN A NEW SOUTHERN ROUTES, WE'RE HEADED BACK TO SCHOOL. IN SPRINGFIELD, THE CITY AND EFFINGHAM COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT PARTNERING TO STRENGTHEN EARLY LITERACT EFFORTS AND THEY'RE GETTING HELP ALONG THE ...

We’re back with our roundup of the most insightful studies of the year, from the power of brain breaks to groundbreaking ...

Hollowed out. That’s how I frequently described West Virginia University during the nine years I worked there before leaving this summer. There was a library, but it bought fewer and fewer books. The ...

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As people age, many develop presbyopia — age-related farsightedness that makes it hard to read things at close range — and may turn to reading glasses. But new research suggests another option may be ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology released new guidance on building end-to-end zero-trust architectures (ZTA), providing security teams with practical, real-world examples of how to ...

Guillory (Professing Criticism), an English professor at New York University, serves up an esoteric examination of what it means to give a text a “close reading.” He notes that from the 1600s through ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...

For 23 years, A.O. Scott was a film critic for the New York Times. For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ ...