Is the way we're operating schools making our kids miserable? Developmental psychologist Susan Engel attempts to answer that very question in THE END OF THE RAINBOW, a new book out by The New Press. By focusing lessons on developing our children into happy adults and not on education as an...

You've heard it: "Poetry isn't for everyone." The students in Ms. Jasani's English class at Baltimore's Digital Harbor High School certainly thought so. That is, until they got their hands on Langston Hughes, Zora Howard, and many other powerful poets through the Poet Warriors Project. As part of...

It seems more and more people are turning to social media these days to vent their opinions on everything from hamburgers to education. With the latter, one hot topic over the past year has been the Common Core State Standards. But how does the conversation on the Twitterverse actually influence...