A middle school teacher on Long Island is under investigation for allegedly asking students to "write something funny" about pictures of slavery as part of a class assignment. The eighth grade ...

FREEPORT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - A Long Island social studies teacher has apologized after giving what critics are calling a shockingly insensitive assignment. Students say the white teacher told them to ...

I’ve long believed that if we want students to improve as writers, it makes sense to make writing as fun as possible. Ask students how often they experience school-related writing as fun and expect a ...

At a recent conference on teaching in higher education, I attended a session on ChatGPT. The session organizers, a team from the University of Central Florida, began by asking us to position ourselves ...

Howe Writing Across the Curriculum recently partnered with consultants in the Howe Writing Center to present a series of workshops on Assignment Design, featuring real-time feedback from our student ...

There is no doubt that writing is an absolutely essential skill to successfully pass through the college and perhaps through our entire lives. Nevertheless, a recent National Assessment of Educational ...

Writing is a valuable educational tool for learning. In the classroom, writing can help students grapple with and understand content more deeply and help students learn disciplinary ways of knowing ...

Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

The students’ assignment: Write an op-ed about lead poisoning in Lewiston-Auburn. Or write a caption for a photo, or text about a campus tree. Write about how strange quantum theory is, or write a ...