What is a college application? At its core, a college application is an attempt to convince a stranger (or group of strangers) that the applicant is a desirable classmate, roommate, campus-mate and ...

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A new twist in the arms race for a seat at an elite NYC public high school: Beacon is now requiring students complete their ...

Gandhi Jayanti 2025 brings a chance for students to explore Mahatma Gandhi's life, non-violence and truth. Use these speech and essay ideas full of impact, simplicity and modern relevance.

Writing a college admissions essay is hard. But using AI could backfire badly. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Tero Vesalainen / iStock / Getty Every fall, high school students applying to ...

If the students’ effort is successful, Colorado voters will see a question on their 2026 ballot about a practice known as ...

In 1986, Robert Chambers committed a terrible crime that became a lurid tabloid fixture and a cautionary tale of class, privilege, and the excesses of the era. What became of Chambers in the decades ...

The first essay anybody writes is for school. Same here. But the only examples I remember are the ones I wrote at the end, in my A-level exams. One compared Hitler to Stalin. Another, Martin Luther ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

As Villanova enters midterm season, the question about which form of assessment is better, standard exams or essays and ...

A grammar school has been forced to abandon its plan to award a “Farage 10” football shirt as an essay prize after a backlash over political impartiality. Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School ...