Question: The only standard advice I have received about the writing sample for job applications is: “Stay within the page limit.” But surely there is better advice than that. And how much leeway ...
The importance of developing strong writing skills seems to be gaining more and more attention almost daily. Employers spend billions remediating writing skills. With the new SAT, college admissions ...
Any cover letter needs to be well written and properly presented; but a cover letter for teachers really should be as close to perfect as it’s possible to get. Teaching, of course, can be a difficult ...
Writing instruction may have fallen by the wayside during the No Child Left Behind Act era, as teachers zeroed in on teaching math and reading. But now, with most states using the Common Core State ...
Are digital tools like cell phones and social networking sites undermining students' writing skills or helping to improve them? A new survey of teachers from the Pew Research Center's Internet & ...
You get report cards, and so should your teachers. You don’t need a great writing teacher, or even a good one, to become a good writer yourself — but it sure helps. And becoming a good writer will ...
A survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement (AP) and National Writing Project (NWP) teachers finds that digital technologies are shaping student writing in myriad ways and have also become helpful tools for ...
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Educators are increasingly using generative A.I. in their own work, even as they express profound hesitation about the ethics of student use. By Dana Goldstein As artificial intelligence makes its way ...