Toward the beginning of May, I enrolled in the online master’s program for English at Ohio University. Like my classmates, I made the choice to go back to graduate school because I want to increase my depth of knowledge about English literary history and theories of composition. But the first week focused on neither of … Read more
It was a chilly Thursday morning when I pulled into the wooded parking lot of NewGate School in Lakewood Ranch. I felt like Mary Lennox as I entered the campus, like I was entering a mysterious and secret garden of education. (This is how I’ve always thought about Montessori schools.) My “key” to this garden … Read more
March 2022 Update: Check out the “Why We Should Learn the Parts of Speech” comic here. It’s a common experience: The English teacher hands out a paragraph to each student in class. The instructions at the top read Underline each common, proper, or collective noun. Or perhaps they direct students to Write a verb to … Read more