Writing is taught as both an art and a science. As we go higher in the grades, student writing becomes longer and genres broaden. Teacher loads get higher as well. A high school English teacher could ...

Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Eugenia Mora-Flores, Julia G. Thompson, Karen Sher, Bret Gosselin, Dr. Vicky Giouroukakis, and ...

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 ...