Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in plain-vanilla, academic language and style. In the ...

How do you make sense of art that is not only childlike, but also messy or even deliberately crude? I'm not talking genuine folk art, or edgy art brut, but stuff you might sometimes mistake as made by ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...