Because we know that becoming a successful writer is crucial to a student’s overall trajectory at school, work, and as a citizen, teachers must identify the tools that can best support writing ...

The caterwauling about the inability of U.S. students to write well goes back decades. Newsweek published its ballyhooed screed Why Johnny Can’t Write in 1975. This past summer, The New York Times ...

Long before children enter a formal education setting, they are developing the skills that lay the foundation for learning to write. From fine motor skills to the complexities of vocabulary and ...

Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Each student is expected to prepare a manuscript each week. There will be a weekly workshop ...