Sharon Olds has established herself as a major American poet whose themes of sexuality and power as daughter, wife, and mother are of particular importance to women. Besides depicting family life, she describes global and political events with sensitivit...

May I go to the bathroom?" While this is hardly an unusual question from any middle-level student, the number of students who suddenly need to leave the room increases when a teacher assigns a textbook passage to read. Whether it is to use...

At the Onondaga County Justice Center, Ms. Olcott entered the lives of the students who had disappeared from the radar screen of American education. I WANT to go back to jail. I'm serious. I was a more honest, more effective teacher there....