We live in a golden age of bad writing instruction. Learning to write for school was never a great path to excellent writing, but now that we have added learning to write for a standardized test, ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

Teaching is hectic. The combination of precision work and chaos theory can make the school year feel like an attempt to knit a sweater while riding a Tilt-A-Whirl. Most of us collapse on the couch at ...

Many teachers find that social media makes students engaged, creative writers. July 16, 2013 — -- Occasionally, Jennifer Woollven, an English teacher at West Lake High School in Austin, Texas, ...

KENNEBUNK, Maine — Teachers from across RSU 21’s three elementary schools learned how to improve their writing instruction skills during three days of paid professional development earlier this week.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — It is hard to get through college, or even to get through life if you do not know how to write clearly. Now University of Arizona is not renewing the contracts of ten ...

Teachers who grade writing papers in today's schools have a couple of questions for their students: R U 2 BZ 2 write? Or R U 2 lazy? Teachers nationally and locally are discovering that writing ...

This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in the field of teacher education through the lens of threshold concepts. It includes: An overview of what writing characteristics are valued in ...

Rather than grading only final essays or presentations, Bond evaluates each stage of the writing process.

Most writing teachers believe that digital tools — from wikis to whiteboards — make it easier to teach writing, but say they worry about plagiarism and informality in their students' work, according ...

One way to learn is to teach. If you’ve been asked to teach anything — a soccer skill, Italian cooking, news writing — you know that the process of preparing to teach involves intense learning. So ...