Constructing an assignment that elicits good writing may be as difficult for teachers as writing the essays is for students, a forthcoming study suggests. Teachers must strike a delicate balance ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Professors sometimes bemoan their students' writing skills. But how good are professors at creating ...

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The number of minutes in a school day has not changed since I was in school – a long time ago – but the educational content surely has. We had physical education (PE) every day, and still managed to ...

Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the ...

Why do you do what you do? What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning? Where is your happy place? What stands between you and your ultimate dream? Heavy ...

Monique Trauger was nervous. So were her students at Thomas K. Finletter Academics Plus School in the Olney section of North Philadelphia. The assignment was personal and open-ended and all sorts of ...