(CBS MoneyWatch) If your teenager is a high school senior, now is the time to get started on those college essays. Nearly all the schools that use the Common Application are private, and they include ...

Science topics can feel dull when people face them in essays, but creativity changes that. Students often search for ways to hold a reader’s attention, especially when handling research or complex ...

This article appears in College Prep 2019. Teachers know it, guidance counselors know it, even colleges know it: High school students dread writing the personal college essay. The pressure is high, ...

In lots of subjects across the school (not just English), you will be asked to write a variety of different types of essay. Once you are clear about the type of writing that you have been asked to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education from the inside out. Nearly half of the college applicants who used the Common Application this year ...

The glow from the laptop reflects off his forehead as he stares at the screen, paralyzed by panicked perfectionism. The Common Application essay prompts are neatly copied onto the blank document, ...

Pensacola Sister Cities is sponsoring an essay contest for fourth- and fifth-grade public, private and home-school students in Escambia County. The topic for fourth-graders is Gen. Bernardo de Galvez, ...