May 1, 2014 By: admin Dr. Cynthia Wachtell, research associate professor of American studies and director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program at Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women, has published an article in The Huffington Post. Titled "No Place for Poetry on My Son's Common Core ELA Test," the piece discusses the lack of poetry in modern educational curricula and the ways more inclusion of it could benefit students.