Test scores are optional or ignored, grades are inflated -- and essay questions are more important than ever for students applying to...

Grading students based on effort rather than achievement is spreading from P.E. class to academic classes in high schools, but...

“Professional writing” has vanished from the curriculum, writes Ed Week‘s Sarah D. Sparks. Employers and educators are pushing for...

Students can do everything asked of them in school, yet fail to meet grade-level standards, charges TNTP’s new Opportunity Myth report....

Argumentation — make a claim and support it with evidence and reasoning — is at the core of Common Core English. Kate Ehrenfeld Gardoqui...

Political indoctrination is destroying the value of college writing courses, argues Stephen Combs, who teaches composition at Florida’s...

Fordham’s Reading and Writing Instruction in America’s Schools looks at how teaching has changed in the Common Core era. Middle and high...

The ability to write cogently, quickly and under pressure, helped me get into and through college. However, a growing list of selective...

Pearson’s “automated scoring program graded some 34 million student essays on state and national high-stakes tests last year,” she...

When novelist Ian McEwan’s son had to write a school essay on one of his father’s books, Enduring Love, McEwan “gave him a tutorial” on...

A self-styled “grammar vigilante” in Bristol, England is correcting shop signs in the dead of night, reports the Telegraph. “Wielding an...

In September 1885, a group of librarians — including Melvil Dewey, the decimal man — met to discuss how to expand their card catalogs...

“Cursive handwriting instruction is returning to elementary school classrooms in New York City,” reports NBC News. Penmanship remains...

Grammar is “racist,” proclaims the writing center at the University of Washington, Tacoma. In fact, everything’s racist. Language...

Teacher have outsourced grading at two Michigan public schools that are “teacher-powered,” reports Education Week Teacher. Washtenaw...

Nearly 500 people — all college graduates — applied for a communications job at Marc Tucker’s organization. Candidates were asked to...