The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

Writing remains a shifting fuzzy cloud floating in a wide subjective sky. This week, teachers all over the country have been sharing tales of teaching that most difficult of subjects—writing. They are ...

(This is the last post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is the biggest mistake teachers make in writing ...

For all the hype Millennials get, nearly every K-12 student today is part of its successor generation—Gen Z—a group more plugged in and social than ever before. The internet is awash in surveys ...

Thirty years ago, I entered the teaching profession determined to help students learn to write. I was on a mission, fueled by the strong views of the professors and master-teachers in my credentialing ...

IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

When do you teach writing? This is a question I ask English language teachers whenever I observe in their classrooms in connection with our Inquirer in Education (IIE) program. The teachers are often ...

A worrying decline in writing skills in Queensland schools has sparked calls for a change in the way students are taught. USQ School of Education Associate Professor (Curriculum & Pedagogy) Stewart ...

Writing skills declined overall from 2011 to 2018, but the decline was steepest in years 7 and 9 There has also been a noticeable decline in the writing skills of high-achieving students The gap ...