Professional Learning Worth Having
Every educator has at least one professional development horror story, and those make it hard to imagine advocating FOR more …
New Teacher Preparation
How were you prepared to be a teacher? If you’re a teacher of literacy, what supports did you get …
Defining the Role of Standardized Tests
One of the biggest problems with the hotly debated standardized tests of our day is that we have come to …
Assessment Outside the Box (or Bubble)
Nobody is satisfied with standardized tests as the best form of assessment, but it will take some innovative thinking to …
Taking a Formative Assessment Stance
Much attention has been paid to the big high-stakes assessments that are raising blood pressure across the country—but there’s another …
Evaluation of Institutions
Just as standardized tests and teacher evaluations have become part of the toolkit used to determine the quality of elementary …
Students’ Right to Their Own Language
In 1974 the Conference on College Composition and Communication first adopted a statement affirming students’ right to “their own patterns …
Principles for Online Writing Instruction
What defines good online writing instruction, and why does this definition matter? The Conference on College Composition and Communication has …
Storytelling as Advocacy in Higher Education
The following piece was submitted by Jim Webber, an assistant professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. He studies …
Time for Collaboration
It’s all well and good to talk about the importance of collaboration in schools and colleges, but unless the systemic …