The Internet has ruined high-school writing. Write the line on the board five hundred times like Bart Simpson. Remember and internalize it. Intone it in an Andy Rooney-esque grumble. I've heard ...

“I want to say something important about writing,” Pirette McKamey told 25 seniors in her English class at San Francisco’s Mission High School one fall afternoon in 2012. It’s incredibly ...

Anderson Cooper spoke to students and a superintendent about how Khan Academy's AI Khanmigo "flags" concerning student ...

UC Irvine has been awarded a $5-million U.S. Department of Education grant over five years to create a research and development center to help teachers improve the writing of middle and high ...

More middle and high school students than in the past have mastered the formal “basic” writing skills needed to express ideas or share information, national assessment results released today show.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, James R. Haggerty illustrates an example of the disconnect, highlighting teachers from elementary to high school who declare certain words (like “said”) to be “dead ...

Why are most U.S. students weak writers? Marc Tucker argues that it's because our education system doesn't emphasize writing and that's a big problem in the 21st century economy.

Will Fitzhugh has been struggling for more than 30 years to persuade high schools to let students do something they rarely do — write. His weapon in this battle is his quarterly publication, the ...

When students taking College Writing II walked into a lecture room at Lowell High School in early March, they found their places in groups of chairs and waited for their partners. At first glance, it ...

I ask because I recently judged the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s high school column and commentary writing contest for students in Broward and Palm Beach counties. And here's what I learned ...