The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

Do you remember diagramming sentences in elementary school? Your teacher would have you chart out where the subject, object, and modifiers went. Well, like so many things in school these days, ...

Patty McGee is the author of Feedback That Moves Writers Forward (Corwin Literacy) and a literacy consultant with Gravity Goldberg LLC. Patty brings a vision for creating learning environments where ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Classical Outlook is the leading publication for classroom teachers of Latin, Greek, and Classical Humanities in the schools ...

As an English teacher, I’ve had numerous conversations with college professors who lament the writing skills of their first year students. But not all writing. Most students are capable of solid ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Last year, I ...

This study explores changes that have occurred in the secondary English curriculum in California schools since 1975. During the fourth week of the fall quarter of 1979, students enrolled in six ...

Judith C. Hochman has long seen holes in writing instruction. “We’re very good at assigning writing,” she explains. “We’re not very good at teaching kids how to write.” In 2012, the Hochman Method, as ...