The Little Red Schoolhouse is an intensive writing program at the University of Chicago focused on academic and professional writing.
Grown out of a lecture series by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory G. Colomb in the late 1970s, LRS is widely regarded as one of the most rigorous writing programs in American higher education for its unusual approach: rather than treating writing as a basic skill to be mastered once and forgotten, it treats writing as a dynamic, reader-oriented practice that demands continued development throughout a professional life.
The program is notable for its influence beyond the walls of UChicago, producing faculty who have carried its principles to other universities, a body of influential books and scholarly articles (including Williams's seminal Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace), and a YouTube lecture with over one million views.
A lecture from Larry McEnerney of the Little Red Schoolhouse has been seen over 9 million times