If you ask Jeff Roper, English teacher at Declo High School, there’s an evolution taking place. Over the years he has graded, edited, corrected, directed and advised students on their writing. Whether ...

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. Just look on ...

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CHICAGO — The high school research paper, that academic rite of passage riddled with footnotes and anchored by a bibliography, has faded from many classrooms, a consequence of larger class sizes ...