SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A South Windsor teacher now faces termination hearings after he read the 1968 Allen Ginsberg poem entitled “Please Master” to his high school class. David Olio put the ...

A South Windsor, Connecticut teacher has been placed on leave after reading a poem in class that some parents and school officials described as “highly inappropriate”. The teacher, whose name has not ...

CARMAN-AINSWORTH, Michigan --For years, the dreary yellow wall with brown spots of dried adhesive in the back of her classroom has made Jessyca Mathews cringe. The "ugly wall," as Mathews and her ...

A dispiriting new survey has found that nearly a quarter of schools teach poetry only once a year or less. What a shame that is Schools are facing considerable barriers to teaching poetry in the ...

An English teacher who came under public scrutiny after teaching a poem with vulgar language has resigned from Souhegan High School, effective at the end of the school year, said Principal Ted Hall.

Kondwani Fidel never thought he'd find himself back at Baltimore City College. After graduating from the public high school in 2011 and going off to Virginia State University, he thought he'd stay far ...

Allen Ginsberg's "Please Master" offers a graphic account of a homosexual experience English professor: "If you can't handle Ginsberg how are you going to teach Walt Whitman?" Nearly a half-century ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your favorite ways to teach poetry? April is National Poetry Month. Poetry lessons can be great learning opportunities and big hits with students—whether they ...