As a middle school science teacher, I have struggled with all the content my students are expected to master in one short year. The text books have hundreds of pages of facts, diagrams, and theories ...

I’ve long believed that if we want students to improve as writers, it makes sense to make writing as fun as possible. Ask students how often they experience school-related writing as fun and expect a ...

As a writer, I am aware of the long and pervasive discourse about the difficulty of writing. Writing is arduous and enervating, frequently frustrating, wrought with failure, and also, I believe, a fun ...

Children who read and write at home -- whether for assignments or just for fun -- are building long-term study and executive function skills, according to a new article Children who read and write at ...

Almost a third of boys never pick up a pen and write for fun outside of the classroom, according to research. But nearly a third of girls do enjoy spending time writing. The National Literacy Trust, ...

Students: forget about MLA citation, present-tense narration, and subject-verb agreement. It’s time to start writing for fun again. On Saturday, April 9, the Poetry Center and the Office of Religious ...