The first lady, a longtime educator herself, writes in a new essay that teachers "did the work that needed to be done" throughout the pandemic First lady and longtime educator Dr. Jill Biden is ...

” A HERO cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world,” /V observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thought even in 1850 that America’s world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that “Ballot-boxes and ...

The Optimist Club of Boyertown recently held an essay contest for the students of the Boyertown and Oley Valley school districts. The topic for this year’s contest, selected by Optimist International, ...

None of us would ever forget that fateful year, that Father’s Day, nor the indelible signatures two heroes left on the hearts of two boys. Robert J. McDermott is a retired professor of public health ...

J.H. Rose High School freshman Keeley Gay recently was named the winner of the school’s first heroes essay contest for an essay she wrote about her sister, Kara. Runners-up were were sophomore Austin ...

Artists and writers of all ages are invited to submit artwork and essays for Looking for Your Lincoln Hero Global Essay and Art Contest. Entrants should share a story of someone whose strength ...

In this rollicking collection of mostly previously published essays, Hadju (The Ten-Cent Plague; Positively 4th Street) combines the cutting candor of Lester Bangs and the measured and judicious ...

First lady Jill Biden, a teacher for more than three decades, is honoring her fellow educators in a new essay for Time magazine, calling them the "heroes we needed" during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The theme for this year’s Spokane Community Observance of the Holocaust writing and art contests is “Young Heroes of the Holocaust.” Middle school and high school students from the region are invited ...

A few hundred pages. That's how many pages writer Jack Guinness has devoted to queerness, inviting celebrities to contribute essays about their favorite queer icons in "The Queer Bible" (Dey St., 320 ...

For the past two years, a new tradition has been introduced to Terre Haute South Vigo High School, called the Hoosier Heroes essay contest. This contest, sponsored by Indiana’s Dollars for Scholars ...