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School districts across the U.S. work to prepare students to be college or career ready. This often means offering students hands-on work experience in the form of service hours, internships or apprenticeships. This gives students the ability to explore career fields, see a close up view of the workplace, strengthen employability skills, and build their resume. Corporations are often excited to offer these opportunities because it gives them a chance to identify potential future candidates and attract young adults to join their company. But companies often have several concerns including, will students show up late, act or dress inappropriately, be...

My own obsession with Scrabble began in the summer of 2009 in the sweltering heat of Austin, Texas, where I was a graduate student studying economics. As a kid, I had always hated the game, much like Katz-​Brown, associating it with interminable, low-​scoring affairs at the kitchen table that I inevitably lost to my elders. But I also fell down a Word Freak rabbit hole. Stefan Fatsis painted a picture of obsessed geeks sleeping with the dictionary, traveling around the country to exciting tournaments. It was like an über-​nerdy On the Road. The problem when you start playing Scrabble—​especially if...

"S***, guys! Is anyone alive?!"This is the moment where any notion of a happy ending in "Attack on Titan" disappeared in smoke. From the moment she killed Sasha, it was heavily theorized that Gabi would end up killing Eren too, and it finally happened in what will go down as one of the most stunning and truly shocking scenes of the entire show — and a moment that will certainly lead to a civil and cordial discourse, yes sir.That this was just one of several big reveals and devastating losses this episode is just the icing on the cake of...

Editor’s Note: For the first several months of 2022, we’ll be celebrating some of our favorite work from the last fourteen years in a series of “From the Archives” posts. In today’s feature, Alice Sola Kim and Kelly Link discuss Link’s collection Get In Trouble, with a close look at the process behind two stories. The interview was originally published on May 29, 2015. I met Kelly Link when she was one of my teachers at the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2004. Literary brilliance isn’t always coupled with wicked pedagogical chops, but in Kelly, it is. She was immediately...

Of all the interests and hobbies and activities that people can choose from in this world, I never in a million years thought that I would be as interested in birds as I have turned out to be. I didn’t really think much about them prior to a few years ago…..they just flew through the air and built nests and ate worms and generally were background fodder for life. I knew there were a few different kinds and they were all around the same size and that was about it. They didn’t warrant much more attention than that. We got our...