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When Jocelyn Leitzinger had her university students write about times in their lives they had witnessed discrimination, she ...
Facebook Has Transformed My Students' Writing—for the Better Social media has helped make young men comfortable with opening up emotionally.
So, too, do too many of my students, who treat writing assignments as a chore and a waste of time. I want my students to love language, to take joy in crafting a written argument, playing with ...
Research on student learning and success in college has produced compelling evidence that high-impact teaching practices benefit students greatly. Exposure to such practices has been linked to greater ...
In a freshman writing course, most of the students couldn’t write grammatically correct sentences. How can a teacher address poor writing skills in college?
A Department of Education employee is raising concerns over the impact massive layoffs will have on students. For example, how can it be measured if students are learning or what schools need ...
Educators giving feedback to students on what they write can have a big instructional impact—if done well. If done poorly, it can be a waste of time or even harmful.
Throughout my development as a secondary English teacher, I’ve found fiction and poetry effective in teaching students that reading literature can impact their lives. Over the past few years ...
High-impact tutoring in D.C. led to better reading and math scores and improved school attendance, according to a new study by Stanford researchers.
BUFFALO — In an era when many students will be taking standardized tests on computers, K-12 teachers must balance the benefits of handwriting assignments with the ever-growing need for typing.
Tragically, school shootings have become all too common in America. While the attack at a Uvalde elementary school is the deadliest in nearly a decade, it's also the 27th school shooting this year ...