Last fall, at the start of their junior year, Teagan Nam experienced a scary situation at school. There was an anonymous tip that a student at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Md., had brought ...

Humor U is one of the three comedy clubs on the Brigham Young University campus, best known for its student run stand‑up comedy. The club meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Maeser Building ...

“The funniest things are the forbidden.” I shared Mark Twain’s words of wisdom with the students in my college classroom during a difficult discussion about free speech on campus. I have found as a ...

There’s a new trend in middle and high school classrooms, and no, it’s not the dreaded six-seven or the latest TikTok dance. Students are now giving their teachers apology cakes. Yes, cakes. Remember ...

Every teacher has had that moment when you’re grading late at night, running on coffee fumes, when you suddenly burst out laughing at a student’s test answer that is so wildly wrong it deserves an A ...

Early in my career, I taught a delightful class on the post–World War II American novel. Since we met once a week, and since these were graduate-level readers, the course consisted mostly of robust ...