Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students should avoid these mistakes: not proofreading their essays, not focusing on their achievements, writing about an ...

High-school senior Brittany Stinson got accepted into Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Stanford.

This article is part of the Lily Lines newsletter. You can sign up here to get it delivered twice a week to your inbox. Illustrations by Vero Cerri. The first few weeks were bleak. In October, we ...

Students from Norwalk, Amity Regional and Darien high schools have been selected as winners of an annual statewide essay contest hosted by Volunteer Square and Hearst Connecticut Media. Contest ...

Style is publishing the winning art and essays from this year's Arkansas Peace Week statewide contests for schoolchildren. The annual essay contest challenged students with this writing prompt: "In ...