When it comes to assessing student writing, AI is getting a passing grade. At least that’s what two recent studies comparing robot (AI)-generated assessments to human ones suggested. In one study, ...

This is going to sound strange coming from someone who spent his career teaching writing and now spends his time trying to help others teach writing better, but it is entirely possible that, with the ...

December 29, 2025 - Betty Reid Soskin was the nation’s oldest national park ranger. She passed away on Dec. 21 at 104 years old. To honor her, we bring you an episode from 2021, about how a California ...

For the first time in at least five years, New Hampshire elementary and middle school students who take the state’s writing tests will have their essays scored by humans, rather than computers.

Myra Kraft Achievers, Humanities Fellows and transfer students with preapproved university writing transfer credit do not participate in the writing assessment. All other first-year students admitted ...

A recent study by researchers at Vanderbilt University finds that formative assessment—that is, ongoing, classroom-based assessment done by the teacher—can help improve students’ writing. Examples of ...

According to the most recent data from the National Assessment of Educational Performance (NAEP), two-thirds of K-12 students are not writing at levels expected for their grade level. Even before the ...

Student writing skills can be improved in the classroom by having teachers provide students regular feedback, track their progress, and encourage them to evaluate their own skills, finds a new report ...

Performance tests are increasingly used as alternatives to, or in connection with, standardized multiple-choice tests as a means of assessing student learning and school accountability. Besides their ...

Will Fitzhugh is the founder of The Concord Review, which publishes academic research papers by secondary students. March 10, 2014 As Euclid famously said to King Ptolemy I of Egypt, "There is no ...