- Maine Plans to Cut Writing Tests; Eyes New England Consortium
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- Maine plans to eliminate 5th and 8th grade writing tests in March, and the state is considering joining a multistate consortium to save money on tests. more...
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- Activist writing book on social problems
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- DOHA • I feel I am living in exile in my own country, says Qatari businessman and social activist, Hassan Al Jefairi, in the opening part of a diary he hopes to turn into a book. more...
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- Md. to Phase Out Writing on High School Exit Tests
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- Maryland education officials plans to get rid of written-response questions from the state?s high school exit exams in order to deal with long-term complaints about slowly processed test results, officials said last week. more...
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- Writing as Process
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- Teachers should stop encouraging students to revise their work for better grades, Gary Mielo writes. more...
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- FSU writing program ranked in Top 10
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- It's not unusual for Florida State University's name to pop up in national Top 10 lists such as, say, preseason football polls or the fall's dreaded Top 10 party schools. more...
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- On Education: Deciding When Student Writing Crosses the Line
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- After the Virginia Tech killings, creative writing teachers think about how to react to violence in their students? work. more...
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- Students' Writing Said Low Priority
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- The ability to write is an increasingly important skill that needs to be given a higher priority in middle and high schools, says a policy brief by the Alliance for Excellent Education. more...
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- Writing Instruction
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- While 98 percent of Americans believe that good writing skills are very important to succeed in today's economy, roughly half believe the quality of students' writing skills has declined over the past 20 years, a report released by the Berkeley, Calif.-based National Writing Project says. more...
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- Commentary : Recognizing Scholarship, Good Writing and History
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- Michael F. ShaughnessySenior Columnist EdNews.orgEastern New Mexico University I recently received a copy of The Concord Review, Volume 17, Number 3 , the Spring 2007 issue. I would like to acknowledge these find writers and future scholars, and alert teachers out there in the field about the quality of writing that is possible from students with a bit of encouragement and support. The papers, the... more...
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- NAEP Writing Exams Going Digital in 2011
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- The board that oversees the federally sponsored assessment approved the changes to reflect the ways in which technology has changed the way people write. more...
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