Starting in 2011, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will test how well students in grades 8 and 12 can write on computers, rather than with the old schoolhouse standbys of pencils and ...

One way of looking at a doctoral program in anthropology (or in anything else) is as one of those "function" problems in math, where a number goes into a box and comes out as a different number, and ...

This is a GradHacker post by Stephanie Hedge, a PhD candidate at Ball State University in Rhetoric and Composition, @slhedge A few months ago, I wrote a GradHacker post on studying for comprehensive ...

It’s a common gripe of professors and employers: Kids these days just can’t write. Thirty-five years ago -- when today’s bosses and faculty members were college students – similar laments about the ...

Analytical reading helps students move beyond surface understanding and engage deeply with texts, leading to better writing section scores. By learning to read between the lines, students can write ...

Jeff Grabill is a co-founder of Drawbridge Incorporated, an educational technology company. Its product, Eli Review, is a peer learning technology used in environments in which writing is a resource ...