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 ...

Do teachers and administrators at your school discipline students with dignity? Or with disrespect? The YES! Magazine article, “Discipline With Dignity: Oakland Classrooms Try Healing Instead of ...

In their frenzy to find AI detection tools, educators must not adopt analysis models without recognizing their shortfalls and biases. You have /5 articles left. Sign ...

Question: The only standard advice I have received about the writing sample for job applications is: “Stay within the page limit.” But surely there is better advice than that. And how much leeway ...

Each week, Chalk It Up asks educators who've gotten great results to share their secrets. Up this week: The seventh-grade language arts team from Ogden Middle School in Oregon City. These three ...

What are three things that matter most to you and to people significantly older than you? How do your responses compare? Students will read and respond to the YES! article “Three Things That Matter ...

These examples taken from actual student writing were collected by Prof. Virginia Davidson at Mount St. Mary’s College in Newburgh: Most of my classes are lechers, and I can’t stand that. Evaluation ...

Students willingly embrace Google Docs as a new tool for writing, and the free online word-processing tool encourages them to make extensive edits and revisions. But enthusiastic usage of Google Docs ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Susan M. Brookhart, Cheryl Mizerny, Amy Benjamin, Kate Wolfe Maxlow, Karen Sanzo, Andrew ...

Two recent experiments highlight aspects of writing instruction that are rarely studied—or taught. Recent research suggests that secondary students can benefit significantly from learning how to ...