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Culture
A Daily Email for Aspiring Writers Is Truly Inspired
If you've resolved to write more in 2012, a daily email with writing prompts could put you in the mood.
Culture
Submissions: Display Your Poetry
We thought it was time to take a break from texts and emails and write some poetry. Check out these awesome submissions.
Education
More Than 10 Percent of College Papers Plagiarize Wikipedia
Even though paper mills and cheat sites are popular sources of copied work, the encyclopedia site reigns supreme.
Education
Can Launching a Robot into Space Spark Students to Think Creatively?
Students from Montreal and Los Angeles will team up to send a robot into outer space.
Education
People Are Awesome: L.A. Writer Shaves Head to Raise Cash for Struggling Nonprofit
Writer Colleen Wainwright went bald for a program that teaches literacy to high school girls.
Education
Teacher's iPad Experiment Shows Possibilities for Classroom Technology
An Ohio English teacher decided to test whether iPads were a worthwhile investment for his school district.
Education
Can a Lil Wayne Parody Inspire Kids to Write?
A Los Angeles Teacher riffs on a popular hip-hop song to show his students that writing is cool.
Education
For the Good of All Students: Why I'm Marching for Education Justice
We don’t have to eradicate a person’s soul in order to make them a great leader and thinker.
Education
How Blogging Helps Students Crush the Digital Divide
Forget pen and paper: This is a fresh way to get students from low income backgrounds excited about writing.
Education
Chicago Sixth Graders Are Composing Groupon Deals
The deal site partnered up with students working with writing nonprofit 826CHI.
Education
Literacy as a Weapon: A Radical Approach To Teaching That Put Bronx Teens on the College Track
The Power Writers program teaches, "If you don’t learn to write your own life story, someone else will write it for you."
Education
Studying on the Second Shift: Midnight College Classes
Perfect for night owls and working adults. Boston's Bunker Hill Community College offers classes that start at 11:45 p.m.
Education
Is Facebook Turning College Students Into Terrible Writers?
The social media giant encourages students to write only to themselves and to those who are just like them.
Education
Is 500 Words Enough for a College Application Essay?
Thanks to poor writing and too-long essays, the Common Application is capping word counts for this fall's crop of college applicants.
Education
Your Favorite Public Education Reformer Probably Went to Private School
Many of today's prominent education reformers attended private school. Their policies for public schools are a far cry from that experience.
Education
Your Brain on Shakespeare: How the Bard Makes You Smarter
You love Shakespeare's creative use of language. Now new research shows it actually makes your brain grow.
Design
Help Redesign the Window of 826LA's Echo Park Time Travel Mart
The store that fronts 826LA's tutoring center here in Los Angeles is giving an artist $500 to transform its window display. Is it you?
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Could Blogging Be the Key to Raising a Generation of Great Writers?
A Minnesota teacher is helping her students set up blogs and gain a readership. The result? The kids "see themselves as writers—real writers."
