Like his previous two novels and short stories, Bryan Washington’s fourth book, “Palaver,” is set in Houston, where he’s from, and/or Japan, where he now lives. But in “Palaver,” which was nominated ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department ...

The first, and often the hardest, task in writing a newspaper column, a school essay or even a book, is to select a topic. Or more precisely, to shed many of the numerous suitable topics demanding ...

San Jose once again is touting its Silicon Valley prominence with the city offering access to artificial intelligence courses and tools to all residents. At the GovAI Coalition Summit that began ...

U ndergraduate writing programs introduce college students to the rhetorical and argumentative structures they will be expected to master during their four years on campus and beyond. Learning the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write on the intersection of disability and the U.S. workforce. Technology has opened new doors for Americans with disabilities, ...

A choir teacher was exasperated with hearing slang like “67” in her middle school classroom. Rather than ban it, she asked her students to write and perform a song about it. “Some teachers get ...

Ring is launching a new feature that will leverage its vast network of home security cameras to solve a common problem in residential areas: missing dogs. On Wednesday, Ring announced a new free ...

Starting in autumn quarter 2025, the University will begin a multi-year restructuring of the undergraduate writing program, which had previously run concurrently with the humanities Core sequence.

Nearly a year after the University announced it was phasing out all 23 of the creative writing lecturers over the course of the next two years, the first set of lecturers have said their goodbyes to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...