For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Experts say that, if done right, generative AI could be a useful tool in helping students improve their writing. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of ...

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

If you’re a parent or a teacher—especially of English Language Arts (ELA)—you should be losing sleep over the four most harmful effects of AI. From Claude to ChatGPT, AI enables students to generate ...

This is a guest post by Rachel Jamison Webster. This fall, students returned to school with AI software embedded in Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Students will use AI to do research and to generate ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The cursive requirements are part of ...

Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

I write academically for my English classes. I also write creatively, both for class and for my own personal life. Some of my favorite writing is the writing I do in my poetry journal and for the ...