One other meaningful achievement about the writing of grade 12 exams are the strong emotions evoked on the part of both the learners and parents who nurtured these learners to reach such a huge ...

There is no single formula for good writing. Instructors feel this in their bones every time they grade an essay, agonizing over how to reduce competing variables to a single score. Now ...

Any U.S. K-12 educator, in any topic area ... Promoting students that lack grade-level writing skills in the hopes that they will catch up only furthers the problem down the road.

If unable to stagger class assignments, a teacher can have 125 (or more) papers to grade at one time. Practically, that can limit the number of writing assignments given. The less writing our ...

A provincial English exam that Manitoba Grade 12 students were supposed to start writing on Monday has been shelved, and students will instead write exams set by their schools, the province says ...

About 75 percent of second- and third-grade teachers continue to include cursive instruction in their curriculum despite concerns that the artful writing is on the decline, according to a new ...

Questions about the reading and writing tests arose after some education advocates pointed to studies showing passages were written above elementary and middle schoolers' grade levels. Were the ...