Happy Teacher’s Day to you! The phrase "I am because you are" reflects the deepest appreciation and admiration a student can offer a teacher. It stands as one of the greatest compliments a ...

16 years after enjoying a high school literary education rich in poetry, I am a literature teacher who barely teaches it. So far this year, my 12th grade literature students have read nearly ...

Defenders of Connecticut teacher David Olio say one mistake shouldn’t have cost him his job. But why is the work of a towering figure of 20th-century American poetry out of bounds?

Podcast host and teacher Lauran Woolley says she got reported to the Board of Education for reading to her former second-grade class a poem about freedom.. Speaking on this week’s episode of ...

Another teacher was brought to the Zubeyde Hanim Elementary School in Batman to replace Eriman. The teacher defended himself "I had listened to this song in a CD. I liked it," said Eriman. "There ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime? Words with Wings and Magic Things, a book of illustrated poems for kids.

When Arizona seventh grader Olivia Vella, 13, was asked by her writing teacher to come up with a slam poem, she knew that the topic had to be both important and personal.

The mother of a Fairfax County ninth-grader has asked Marshall High School administrators to confront what she says is the racially insensitive behavior of a veteran English teacher.

One commenter wrote that though she was 63 years old, the poem spoke to her, because “many of the things you said were things that I struggled with so many years ago … The hair, make up, right ...

In early March 2014, Aleksandr Byvshev, then a 41-year-old German and French teacher at a secondary school in the town of Kromy (in Russia’s Oryol region), logged into his Vkontakte page and shared a ...