Plain white three-ring binders are so boring. Most of us remedy this fact by using different colors for different subjects, but why stop there? Get an A+ in organization with my gorgeous new three-ring binder covers, designed just for you! In true Renaissance Revival style, each design blends timeless art with a modern twist. With beautiful choices for history and English, your cover arrives as an instant digital download. Simply hit "print" and slide it behind your binder's

It's no secret that some summer reading books are better than others. Over the years, I've developed a few hard-and-fast rules to sort the wheat from the chaff. Follow them to ensure you don't waste your time on something pointless when, trust me, there are countless good books out there. How to Find a Good Summer Reading Book: It can't have been published in the past 10 years - If it's actually good, it'll still be around in a few years. Modern books are usually fads and no

It's no coincidence that when America decided Latin was too "old fashioned," the humanities stopped producing great minds.

Something has felt instinctively "off" about society's relationship with technology for a long time. I tried (and failed) to delete Vocabbett's social media accounts after New Year's because of it. But businesses need clients, and today, they all live online. More importantly, my refraining from the (already rare) Instagram post did nothing to make my 5-year-old son stop asking for "iPad," or talking ad nauseam about his "pets" in Bottle and Minecraft. Before you gasp and say

I'm currently reading Britton LaTulippe's Revealing School: Discover What School Is Really Doing to Your Kids , and one of his claims is that textbooks are just a 'CliffsNotes' version of history. Why? Textbooks disconnect students from the authentic source material, providing a bare-bones, "here's what you need to know" instead of complete documents. In English, reading the CliffsNotes (or SparkNotes) instead of the book is cheating--why don't we feel the same about history?

I’ve noticed an alarming trend in society lately, and it’s to no one’s benefit. Flipping the knowledge of previous generations on its head, adults seem to defer to (or even be afraid of) children. There are countless examples of this, and I myself have fallen prey to it with an entirely new collection of jeans and the middling of my hair’s part. But there are places where the adults need to remain the adults, and one of them is the classroom. English teachers are currently