At Los Penasquitos Elementary School in San Diego, students spend a good part of their day putting pen to paper: writing letters and persuasive essays, composing poetry and short stories, and ...

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as I read these words from the fifth or sixth page of instructions to seventh-graders taking the writing State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) ...

The results of a national writing test released Friday show that only a quarter of eighth- and 12th-grade students have solid writing skills, a statistic that Lowcountry school officials say they have ...