Corrected: An earlier version of this story misstated Steve Graham’s affiliation. He is a professor at Arizona State University. If you want a hint of the gap between students’ writing skills and ...

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Rubrics aren’t going away anytime soon, but let’s not pretend they always help students or tackle the biggest problem in student writing. Rubrics give students criteria for how their grade will be ...

Often when writing for an audience, we try to use complex words to sound smarter. This train of thought is misleading, though. Complex words and sentences only make our writing unreadable to our ...

With educators under enormous pressure to make sure students meet grade level standards in reading and math, writing often takes a back seat in the curriculum, as many literacy experts have observed.