In a rare show of admiration for a prospective student, a high school student who applied to the University of Chicago was welcomed with a handwritten note in response to her college essay. The ...

Amna Khalid and Jeffrey Aaron Snyder’s essay “The Truth, and Nothing but the Truth?” is a response to my criticisms of their earlier piece “The Purpose of the University Isn’t Truth. It’s Inquiry”. In ...

Julie M. Elman responds to the winners of our Spring 2016 Student Writing Competition. Dear Clair, Deedee, Dion, Jazmyn, Jonah, and Nicole, Since 2012, I’ve been illustrating other people’s fears.

The new “question-of-the-week” is: How do we teach ELLs formal language and how to write argument essays for the CCSS? The number of English Language Learners in our schools is growing and, at the ...