Standardized testing, teaching manuals, moldy sets of traditional rules, top-down standards—all create obstacles to teaching writing in any meaningful and effective manner.

Schools that have shifted from traditional “stand-alone” grammar to teaching grammar through writing offer concrete proof that such approaches work. They are moving more students more quickly ...

Innovative language arts teachers are finding that adapting writing instruction to technology can enhance engagement without sacrificing the fundamentals.

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly capable of generating polished, grammatically correct text that meets academic standards, educators face a critical challenge: How can we teach students ...

'Who would have thought that this whole technological revolution would have reminded us that the traditional ways to teach are actually the best,' he said.

After almost five years teaching writing, English, ESL, and humanities courses to high school students and undergraduates, I have come to the conclusion that it is a serious mistake to ground ...

In the world of college composition, we spend a lot of time talking about how to teach writing — with as many opinions on that as there are instructors — but very little time talking about why ...

A program that can obviate some of the traditional tasks we assign certainly poses a threat, but that same program offers an invitation to think in new ways about the writing assignments we create.

This is a shame—not just because poetry is important to teach, but also because poetry is important for the teaching of writing and reading. High school poetry suffers from an image problem.

Not every student will publish work or win prizes and very few will be able to earn a living putting pen to paper, but the teaching of creative writing is about more than that.