EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Remembers 9-11 Fund has developed a scholarship essay contest for Michigan high school juniors and seniors to encourage our youth to research and reflect on the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the how those events have impacted the world.



Students who are seniors in high school this year were likely in the second grade when the attacks occurred. Most of them were between 6 and 8 years old. School history curriculums have tended to focus more on the… Continue

In the course of helping with the Writing Improvement (WI) class yesterday, the English teacher and I had a brainstorm: Zombieland!

We teach in an alternative high school, so our students are more than usually against the idea of writing anything at all, even in a writing class. We have been following Baron Wormser's and David Cappella's Poetry-Centered Classroom approach in the WI class this year, having had to re-write the entire curriculum last summer, and while…

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