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Essay or Assay: Merriam-Webster “Tries” to Explain the Difference

The essay is by far my favorite genre, to read and to write. A far cry from what it looks…

Why Poetry and STEM are Not So Far Apart

Etymology is often my go-to inspiration source for looking at things differently. Big ups to Merriam-Webster for this etymological gem…

Gradgrind’s is an education blog run by Tom Liam Lynch. A professor in New York City, Tom co-founded Babble Lab, a center for digital humanities pedagogy and research at Pace University, helped establish an international consortium of coding schools for refugees called Room 7, and is launching a nationwide initiative called CS4ELA to explore ways to embed computer science into K-12 English classes. His new collection of essays on education, technology, and teaching English is called Strata and Bones.