Editor’s note: First-year students, prospective students (and some of their parents) wonder and worry how they will handle the academic transition from high school to college. In a series of stories, ...

From playwriting to investigative journalism to graphic fiction, Yale offers a wide range courses in creative writing. And many of these courses are taught by professors in the Faculty of Arts and ...

Route 66, America’s most celebrated highway, is something altogether different today. It is no longer “the best” way to get from Chicago to the West Coast. In many places, the historic road is buried ...

Writing remains a shifting fuzzy cloud floating in a wide subjective sky. This week, teachers all over the country have been sharing tales of teaching that most difficult of subjects—writing. They are ...

Are digital tools like cell phones and social networking sites undermining students' writing skills or helping to improve them? A new survey of teachers from the Pew Research Center's Internet & ...

W henever I talk with colleagues about our students’ writing, we complain. Not only about the writing itself (which, every year, at every institution, is consistently but somehow surprisingly bad) but ...