School is back in session and a creative writing assignment already has led to the suspension and arrest of an imaginative 16-year old South Carolina high school student. Alex Stone's teacher asked ...

An English teacher is being closely monitored at Kingswood Regional High School after administrators said she assigned an inappropriate essay topic to her students.Jack Robertson, superintendent of ...

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Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...