Ryah Cooley Cole is an award winning writer and a high school English teacher based on the Central Coast of California. She is most interested in bringing diverse stories to her readers and students.

Graduate and professional schools often require some sort of written statement — often called a "statement of purpose," "personal statement" or "letter of intent"— as a part of the application. Some ...

Like the old saying goes, when one door closes, another opens. Most of the metaphorical doors the class of 2026 has walked through so far have been seamless transitions: Elementary to middle school, ...