Apprehension is brimming at the fore. It barges into dinner-table conversations, boardroom briefings, and late-night Slack ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...

Walking through the aisles of a bookstore or library will never be the same for me. Now that I’ve completed the process of publishing a book from defining an idea to writing multiple drafts, editing, ...

“A writer,” Saul Bellow once observed, “is a reader moved to emulation.” But what if it’s also the other way around? What if, when we think about writing, we are actually teaching ourselves how to ...

Readers on TikTok and Instagram are making the aesthetics of reading more visible than ever with creative, and often intricate, annotations. Called marginalia, these markups can be elaborate, with ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...

Flamingos are fascinating birds, widely recognized for their striking pink coloration, long, skinny legs and distinct feeding adaptations. They are highly sociable animals, living in large groups ...

More than 100 children ages 3 and up gathered at the High 5 Recreation Center in Brandon to take part in the World’s Largest Swimming Lesson (WLSL), a global initiative aimed at promoting water safety ...

Lucy Christopher receives funding from Hobart City Council for this InsideOUT project. Fergus Edwards does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

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Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. If you’ve been following education news, you know students’ reading and writing skills remain low, ...

An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson. Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders. To teach a valuable lesson about where the ...