Past ColumnsShhhh! I'm being scored. About 70 sharp pencils are out there among you checking my sentence fluency (Is this one too long?) and my organization (Should I move this?). Then it's on to ...

Put yourself back into a classroom during your early academic years. Try to recollect how you felt each time the teacher gave you a writing assignment. You would then have been asked to take out a ...

To the editor — Accelerated Reader, Six-Trait Writing, WASL, HSPE, Smarter Balanced high-stake testing, Innovation centers, Senior Boards, Project Lead the Way, and PLCs, all highly touted educational ...

Even though it is the middle of summer, 70 Grand Island teachers and administrators are on anything but vacation this week. They are spending three days crammed into a room at the Grand Island Public ...

Do schools need a good writing curriculum? After all, with spell and grammar checkers, texting, instant messaging and Twitter, among others, who needs writing lessons? It seems that in the midst of ...