EdSource · Hot classrooms, leaky roofs — one student’s fight for better school facilities (Rebroadcast) We have all been reading the news about disappointing literacy rates in California, which have ...

Teachers are focusing on writing instruction like never before. More and more, they’re asking students to write about what they read, helping them think through and craft their work, and using such ...

Gabriel Garcia Márquez once told an interviewer at the Paris Review that the first time he read Kafka’s Metamorphosis it nearly knocked him clear off his bed. “I didn’t know anyone was allowed to ...

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

The Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE) was founded in 1996 with the generous support of Roger and Joyce Howe ('57). Our mission is to help Miami students develop as effective writers in college ...

Back in 2005 in California, I was reading Edward Said's Power, Politics, and Culture. This book is a collection of twenty-eight interviews conducted over three decades, in which Said fielded various ...

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? It isn’t easy for educators to teach reading, and it isn’t easy for students to learn the skill, either. But, in ...