Having recognized this, the Common App added a new optional 250-word essay that will give universities a chance to understand the atypical high school experience students have had. The prompt will be: ...

Writing contests are a great way for high school students to showcase their creative skills. Photo by mentatdgt from Pexels Some schools might not have many extracurricular activities for aspiring ...

As a high school teacher, I still ask my students to write essays by hand. It not only takes them away from screens, but also doing it helps with learning. I'm sure there are ways in which AI can ...

English teacher Steve Morgan in his Orland High School classroom, where he has started assigning in-class essays in pen/pencil and paper in response to the rise of ChatGPT.

Lakewood High School junior Ari Frischauf’s “Hearing Colors and Tasting Sounds: What Is Synesthesia?” earned a Top 10 spot in the New York Times STEM Essay Writing Contest.

Olivia Ng, a Fort Morgan High School junior, won the Blue Horizons high school essay writing contest this year. (Courtesy photo) While many of the activities sponsored by Morgan County youth ...