Opinion

During and after the recession of 2007 through 2009, college enrollment grew rapidly. That was partly just millennial-generation demographics: there were 3.5 million more 18- through 24-year-olds in the U.S. in 2010 than a decade earlier (and about 750,000 more than there are now). But the percentage of young Americans attending college and graduate school also hit an all-time high in 2011.

Since I could hold a pen in my hand, I loved to write.

When Facebook first began its meteoric rise, some of my students said they wanted to do a story on it for the student newspaper.

My neighbor, Phil Pillpusher, was raking leaves when I stopped.

In a recent NPR report, I heard the sad news that Gary Paulsen had died.

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