Florida Commissioner of Education Manny Diaz says local officials acted properly when they decided to restrict elementary students at a public school in Miami-Dade County from reading the poem ...

Huong Le and Lilly Penick are both 17-year-0ld juniors who attend Gulf High School in New Port Richey, Florida, and participate in their school’s International Baccalaureate program. They worked ...

After opening with a famous Horace Mann quote about education being the “great equalizer” from 1848, Livingston’s poem got down to brass tacks: ...

I thought the poem was too obscure for kids. But education writer Natalie Wexler, who has written the best book I have seen on improving elementary schools, convinced me I was wrong.

Alli Warren is the author of "Here Come the Warm Jets" (City Lights, 2013). She lives in Oakland, Calif.

For years, thousands of children throughout the world have been studying a poem about sunflowers believing it to be the work of the 19th-century poet William Blake.

Dionne Brand’s poem is a testament to life lived in the flickering light of spectacle and the grim shadow of war. By Dionne Brand Selected by Anne Boyer Dionne Brand’s “Inventory III ...