uncommon courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. I have always enjoyed writing poetry. As a high school mathematics teacher, I ...

Poetry doesn’t rhyme anymore, and the people demand an explanation. There should have been a press release. Or a public referendum. For many of us, a non-rhyming poem resembles a non-alcoholic beer: ...

A great deal of time today is spent on the issue of standards in education. The key point of debate in the discussion of standards, under way in virtually every state, centers upon identifying the ...

People think that poems have to rhyme – well, they don’t! Rhyming must be used carefully – using it too much can make your poems boring, hard to listen to and understand. Poems with strict rules, ...

Too often, students receive the message in their English classes that poetry exists to be analyzed. They learn terms, strategies and complicated acronyms to remember them—all in the service of solving ...

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