I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

If a student writes a story or a paragraph on a piece of paper, it can easily be crumpled up, stuffed into the bottom of a backpack, and forgotten or thrown away. But letting a 1st grader use a ...

Extended "discourse," such as class presentations or essays written as school assignments, has a particular structure arising from particular expectations and standards. Such structure, expectations, ...

After several years of teaching data analytics, I have come to an agreement that at the end of each academic semester, I will suffer through grading between 20 and 40 group reports. Each report is ...

Many students aren't learning spelling and writing skills in school. Parents can help, but there are limits to what they can do. Especially during remote learning, parents are discovering their kids ...