Robert Frost

The President Reminds Us Why We Teach Poetry

It was 1963 and Robert Frost had died. President Kennedy offered a glorious eulogy for Frost, but it was also…

Frost’s “To a Thinker” (1936)

The last step taken found your heft Decidedly upon the left. One more would throw you on the right Another…

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.