The results of a two-year study on the National Writing Project, a teacher professional-development program with nearly 200 sites around the country, show that the program had a positive impact on ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

For years when I taught freshman composition, I centered the class around argument, the form of writing that I took to be at the heart of academic discourse and intellectual life generally. I assigned ...

Intelligent design, the argument that life is so complex that it must have needed a sophisticated designer, was formulated to get around court rulings that banned creationism from being taught in ...

The U.S. District Court of New Hampshire in Concord. A lawsuit challenging new restrictions on what New Hampshire teachers can discuss in the classroom got its first significant hearing in federal ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What has been the best social studies lesson you have taught and why do you think it was so good? In Part One, Carina Whiteside, Denise Fawcett Facey, Deborah Gatrell, ...

As a teacher at Harvard, I believe my students should use AI on their assignments so they're prepared for the job market. But ...