Education is being polarized by advocates on the left and right, but students' learning should not be limited to mastering ...

This week’s question is: What is “close reading,” is it important and, if so, how should I teach it? The term “close reading” appears to be on every English teacher’s lips, though it’s not used in the ...

Close reading can seem like a complicated or specialized academic skill – but the fact is that we all do close reading every single day! We all read “between the lines” of emails, books, movies, and ...

(This is the last post in a three-part series on this topic. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) This week’s question is: What is “close reading,” is it important and, if so, how should I ...

W hen I was an undergraduate at Amherst College, it was a rite of passage for all English majors to discover that they had entirely misunderstood Robert Frost’s most famous poem “The Road Not Taken” ( ...