The festive season will soon be upon us and what better way to spend the holidays than curled up with a good book? However, the big question is “which...
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Prompts for the NEHS Scholarship essays based on the 2023 Common Reader, Beautiful Country, by Qian Julie Wang, will be posted November 1, 2022. Graduating...
Applications for NEHS Scholarships based on the 2022 Common Reader, The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, are now being accepted. All applications must...
The Advisory Council continues to seek recommendations for the Common Reader for next year; the text selected becomes the basis for the NEHS scholarship...
Ernest Hemingway stated, “There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then...
Diane Steinberg, President of Sigma Tau Delta, the sponsoring partner of NEHS, has issued this statement on racism on behalf of the the full organization...
Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys, the Common Reader for 2020-2021, has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Common Reader is the basis...
After considering a long list of books recommended by many NEHS Advisors, the Advisory Council has selected The Nickel Boys, award-winning novel by Colson...
As mentioned in the January 15 NEHSXpress, the African American Read-In, promoted by National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), has become an integral...