An instructional leader in a Bay Area school district told me last week that while they are a bright spot in improving reading for the last three years, they still haven’t recovered to pre-pandemic ...

As artificial intelligence makes its way into more classrooms — and in light of this week’s executive order to increase AI education in K-12 schools — teachers may be looking for ways to embrace the ...

A more intentional focus on writing instruction is reaping big rewards for a Tennessee district. In Sumner County, a district serving about 29,000 students, school leaders in 2019 were looking for a ...

Novice writers may struggle with conventions of academic writing, good habits and processes for developing academic essays, and/or grammar, mechanics and syntax. Through the directed self-placement ...

Harvard in 1900 had only one required course -- freshman composition -- reflecting the faculty’s belief that writing was too important a skill to be left to caprice. After all, back in 1874-- 1874! -- ...

As the potential disruption of U.S. education by essay-writing chatbots was making headlines last week, a New York-based ed-tech startup that creates digital tools for writing instruction launched a ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? It isn’t easy for educators to teach reading, and it isn’t easy for students to learn the skill, either. But, in ...

Common Core State Standards are driving the curriculum and changing the expectations for what teachers and children are expected to do during writing instruction in school. Here are Common Core’s 10 ...

Writing is hard, and writing at length is harder. But there are no studies on whether it's better to teach students to write sentences before asking them to write at length. There isn’t much good ...