The website of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans, which collects materials related to civil rights, posts samples of actual literacy tests used in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.…
We are launching a new advanced storytelling workshop next week, and there are still spots available for those of you who are interested. Details below.______________________________ Our storytelling workshop focuses on…
When FXX started airing every single episode in a row last week, it shattered the record for the longest-running marathon in TV history. FXX is airing all 552 episodes of…
My daughter enters kindergarten tomorrow. I can’t believe it. Time hasn’t exactly flown by for me. I write to my children every day, reflecting on the day’s events, noting tiny…
My wife was telling me about a couple who we are scheduled to have dinner with next week. “I don’t know these people,” I said. “How did we meet them?”…
I love my job. I wanted to be a teacher when I was eight years-old, and for a long time in my life, I never thought that dream would come…
Slate’s Matthew J.X. Malady offers any number of reasonable answers to this question, but I think the answer is far simpler: Writing instruction at the elementary, middle, and high school…
A friend of mine and his wife have separate bedrooms. After a six week business trip, he arrived home to a wife who had never slept better in her life.…
Ray Bradbury was born 94 years today. My favorite Bradbury book, and one of my favorite novels of all time, is Fahrenheit 451. It took Bradbury just 18 days to…
