The Journal Journey

Last month founders of The Parlor, the North Shore’s Independent Writing Studio, Jennifer and Adam Pieroni garnered praise from the Boston Globe for their literary magazine Quick Fiction, which was listed as No. 4 in a top-10 list of Best New England literary journals.  

“IF you want to be a good writer, write about the things you know.” Wise words of advice to Taree West Public School students, from visiting teacher and author, Alan Horsfield (pictured), a guest of the school during National Literacy and Numeracy Week.  

Nashville-based Country Music Television's creative team won 14 Creativity Annual Awards.  

While the test scores recently released by Loudoun County Public Schools are impressive, educators also should focus on fostering creativity in their students, Superintendent Edgar B. Hatrick told a group of more than 100 business leaders at the Chamber of Commerce's State of Education breakfast...  

Joel Barlow High School students who took the SATs in 2008 saw improvements in average test scores in math and writing over 2007 while average reading scores declined slightly.  

A doctor from Manchester and his wife have been arrested, accused of writing fraudulent prescriptions.  

With seven hours in the classroom and three on the bus, many area students are putting in 10-hour days to get in their daily allotment of reading, writing and arithmetic.  

The Iowa City Public Library is once again teaming up with the University of Iowa Department of Rhetoric to offer the Library Community Writing Center.  

More students in western Washington County and Beaverton school districts met or exceeded state benchmarks in math compared with last year, but reading and writing scores dropped, according to data released by the Oregon Department of Education.  

Fewer high school sophomores in South Metro-area schools met or exceeded Oregon's standards in writing last year, bucking a statewide trend. Ten out of 13 South Metro high schools lost ground in writing, according to scores released by the state this week.  

MOTLEY CRUE star NIKKI SIXX is considering burning his diaries - because he can't control what becomes of his musings after he's dead. The bass player made headlines with ...  

The ERATO study published today in the American Heart Journal demonstrated, for the first time in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation, that dronedarone (Multaq(R)) significantly reduces mean 2  

Bellevue Public Schools students in high school scored above the state average in a writing assessment given to fourth-, eighth- and 11th-graders last year.  

For a sport that attracts more than its fair share of literary luminaries, the vast majority of tennis prose is sadly insipid.  

The New England Journal of Medicine and American Family Physician rank as top online medical journals among U.S. primary care physicians, according to the just released ePharma Physician® v8.0 (http://www.manhattanresearch.com/products/Strategic_Advisory/ePP) study by pharmaceutical and...