For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...

Experts say that, if done right, generative AI could be a useful tool in helping students improve their writing. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

Most of us remember spending years of school learning how to write, first tracing letters, then writing our names and eventually progressing to cursive. But as technology has taken over, that ...

Debora Valcan, Deborah Pino Pasternak, and Susan Ledger do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have ...

HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) — A contest at Herrick District Library in Holland is encouraging kids to flex their creative writing skills. The Short Story Summer Writing Contest is accepting submissions ...

Deborah Pino Pasternak receives funding from The Ian Potter Foundation, and the ACT Education Directorate via the Affiliated Schools Funded Research Projects. Susan Ledger received funding from Ian ...

Elementary school kids might be required once again to learn how to read and write in cursive. A pair of bills (HB 127 and SB 444) filed for the 2026 Legislative Session would mandate ...

In one sense, the national conversation about what it will take to make sure all children become strong readers has been wildly successful: States are passing legislation supporting evidence-based ...

I read so much misguided press and frantic conversations about ChatGPT and its clones writing papers for high school and college students that it makes me wonder how so many “literates” and arguably ...