I recently read about Wang Jibing, a food delivery rider in Jiangsu province who won one of China's highest literary honours, the Lu Xun Literary Pri...

Last year I was preparing my Year 4 class for their ISA writing exam, and I built a small machine. Every weekend, each student wrote a full essay for...

So well written — Charles Highway is not likeable, and Amis's sentences are unfairly funny about that. I felt more parallels with my own thoughts as...

Such a clear diagnosis of where America is intellectually and how it got there — short enough to read in a couple of evenings without feeling shouted...

A stark reminder of how low the class ladder goes in China, and how privileged my daily life is by comparison. Xiao Hai spent years in southern fact...

I thought I'd skim this and argue with it. I ended up reading most of it properly. Jorgenson lets Musk speak in his own words, and on rockets, batter...

Every teacher now knows the genre. A student who struggles to write a coherent paragraph in class hands in homework that reads like a briefing paper ...

Crazy book — I read it on the Shanghai metro and the murder scene is especially shocking. Clumsy, panicked, sickening; not cinematic at all. I had to...

A few months ago I exported my gradebook as a CSV — three classes, a term of quiz scores, attendance flags, homework submission rates — opened a term...

Lee Kuan Yew reads like a genius on the page — Singapore expelled from Malaysia, then the climb to absurd prosperity. I think his assessment of welfa...