Items tagged with 'Education'

Survived your first year? Welcome to the second year of the world's most honest, useful, and entertaining MFA!

You survived the first semester? Awesome! Here's what we're doing next.

It's the time of year for my annual de-motivational talk: Why I'm not applying for any MFA programs.

Some professions offer the most amazing stuff for kids to interact with on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. And others have, well, computers. How to make the day interesting and memorable.

What are you doing about your dreams? Go after them now. TODAY!

I compare the benefits of getting an M.F.A to the education you get from an agent. I conclude that you get more out of working with an agent than attending an M.F.A. program.

Is the way we're doing things really working? What's right about our approach? What needs to change? This article re-thinks the way we approach university-level creative writing education.

MFA programs are like Club Med for writers. Everything's included: Great locales! Interesting People! Loads of alcohol! (And plenty of reasons to drink it.) But what about the road less traveled?

LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow have more than doubled their Kickstarter fundraising goal, still have over a month left.

University student Kirsty Ashman's severe dust allergy puts her life at risk whenever she opens a book.

An assignment at a New York prep school asks students to compose “suicide notes from the perspective of a suicidal character in the book "The Secret Life Of Bees."

After looking at a number of studies, researchers believe “reading to a child in an interactive style raises his or her IQ by over 6 points.”