A dispiriting new survey has found that nearly a quarter of schools teach poetry only once a year or less. What a shame that is Schools are facing considerable barriers to teaching poetry in the ...

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A South Windsor teacher now faces termination hearings after he read the 1968 Allen Ginsberg poem entitled “Please Master” to his high school class. David Olio put the ...

CARMAN-AINSWORTH, Michigan --For years, the dreary yellow wall with brown spots of dried adhesive in the back of her classroom has made Jessyca Mathews cringe. The "ugly wall," as Mathews and her ...

As Rick Healey and his wife were taking a tour of the kindergarten class where their 5-year-old girl will go to school next fall, they came across a poem that stopped them in their tracks. The lyrics ...

A South Windsor, Connecticut teacher has been placed on leave after reading a poem in class that some parents and school officials described as “highly inappropriate”. The teacher, whose name has not ...

Yorktown High School English and creative writing teacher Melanie McCabe read a selection of poems from her first book, “History of the Body,” at Westover Branch Library on Monday, Jan. 7. The ...

Kondwani Fidel never thought he'd find himself back at Baltimore City College. After graduating from the public high school in 2011 and going off to Virginia State University, he thought he'd stay far ...

An English teacher who came under public scrutiny after teaching a poem with vulgar language has resigned from Souhegan High School, effective at the end of the school year, said Principal Ted Hall.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SOMERVILLE, Mass. — As Rick Healey and his ...