When children have a role in creating class agreements, they begin to see themselves as active participants in shaping their ...

On a gray November morning, stacks of essays sat on an admissions counselor’s desk at a New England liberal arts college. She had already read 60 that week. “I could tell within the first five lines ...

A negative voice peppered James Harrison’s thoughts when, last summer, he stood to read aloud the work he had done in a local creative writing workshop. The voice told him, “I can’t do this. This is ...