Many students today self-report feeling hurried and overwhelmed. We often hurry them through class, too. Those of us committed to liberal arts education know that the humanities can be humanizing. But ...

There is little more difficult than trying to engage a whole class of students in reading a novel that is a poor match for the group. There are things teachers can do to influence the experience in ...

Laura Patranella makes it a priority to read at least one novel each year with her elementary school students, relishing both the depth of these works and students’ communal experience of talking ...

CLASS A Guide Through the American Status System By Paul Fussell 202 pages. Touchstone Books. $16. The historian and social critic Paul Fussell (1924-2012) wrote so many brisk and pleasurable books, ...

For three decades at Columbia Journalism School, Sam Freedman has encouraged students to try long-form narratives. His brand of tough love has paid dividends. By Emma Goldberg The night before the ...