Tavia Wade is a mom to 5-year-old twin girls and a 17-month old Tavia Wade Tavia Wade anxiously anticipated the day she would drop off her 5-year-old twins for their first day of kindergarten.

"By the second line, I couldn't say it out loud because my lip was quivering." It's a rite of passage many parents are familiar with – that emotional experience sending kids off to kindergarten for ...

As the school year draws to a close, is there a teacher who has inspired you? NPR's poet in residence Kwame Alexander says his mother was his first teacher. He learned from her that "teachers are a ...

As part of teacher appreciation month, Morning Edition asked NPR's audience to write a poem about teachers who have had an impact on their lives. We put out this call a week before the mass shooting ...

Along with teaching at Five Acre, Bridge is also the Clallam County Poet Laureate. She spent her childhood in Sequim with her ...

An anti-Semitic poem read by a controversial Negro teacher on a public subscription radio station broadcast last month is the newest element in the ongoing struggle between the New York City teachers’ ...