Elementary teachers can use these books to give students an easy entry point into writing now that winter break is over—and ...

It’s easy to lament student writing abilities. Alarmist complaints can be regularly read in The Chronicle, popular journalism, and books. It’s easy for teachers to take their frustration with a few ...

A recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt University finds that formative assessment—that is, ongoing, classroom-based assessment done by the teacher—can help improve students’ writing. Examples of ...

We need to do a much better job of teaching our students to write effectively. Effective writing is far too important to be left to freshman rhetoric and composition courses or designated writing ...

This year I tried a new writing practice in my 8th grade English class, and it led me to an important realization about writing development. Like many great classroom moments, this one happened by ...

A fifth grader takes the New York State English Language Arts exam. Writing has been hard to test reliably, but a new approach called comparative judgment holds promise. (Photo by John Paraskevas ...

As AI cements itself firmly into classrooms, one large and lingering question concerns when and how students can use it appropriately. It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative ...

College-level writing instructors across the country are inevitably grappling with the challenge to instruction presented by generative artificial intelligence and large-language models. While many ...