“For the 9-11 special section, we’re going to try something different. We’re talking here about a rare journalistic species. But it does exist and it’s a beautiful thing.” That’s how Dan Meyers, ...

Every fall, teens applying to college ask themselves the same well-worn questions. Who is my best role model…in an essay of 500 words. What experience have I learned the most from…in an essay of 500 ...

Before I had children I thought I knew love. I certainly knew what it was to love my family--my parents and my brothers and grandparents.... to love friends, and to love my husband. But loving a child ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I started teaching in May 2007. Here’s what I’ve learned so far. 1. Teaching is a learning ...

Teacher Robert Erhartic once told my seventh-grade social studies class that he saw an ad for something called a rope of sand, and asked whether we thought it would be a good purchase. We spent the ...

Usually, Elizabeth Karp enjoys writing. But this year, she said, was a little different. As the first four-time winner of Mankato’s Laws of Life essay contest, Karp has been a regular attendee at the ...

This essay explores which lessons, if any, U.S. adults are taking away from the coronavirus outbreak. We surveyed 10,211 U.S. adults from July 13 to 19, 2020. All respondents were first asked whether ...