All students who will enter the University of California as freshmen must fulfill the Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR). Students can fulfill the ELWR by achieving certain scores on the SAT ...

As schools and districts shift to evidence-based literacy practices, they need to attend to reading’s twin component in literacy instruction: writing. Research demonstrates that reading and ...

Command of Evidence When students take the Evidence-Based Reading and Writing sections of the assessments of the SAT, they'll be asked to demonstrate their ability to interpret, synthesize, and ...

“Writing to Read: A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Writing and Writing Instruction on Reading.” Harvard Educational Review (2011) 81(4): 710–744. Graham, Steve.

Reading, Writing, and the Common Core State Standards. Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts, students are learning to dissect, analyze, and comprehend the type of ...

As summer approaches, district leaders will spend part of their vacation strategizing how to improve reading and writing ...

Idaho invests $5M in phonics-based teacher training to support K-3 literacy, aligning with the proven Science of Reading to ...

Regarding Sue Corbin’s Nov. 18 column, “Leave literacy education to the experts,” it is unfair to suggest the push for evidence-based reading instruction (termed Science of Reading) is a one ...

Lucy Calkins ran a beloved — and criticized — center at Teachers College for four decades. It is being dissolved. By Dana Goldstein In the urgent debate over how U.S. schools teach children to ...

Just before the Labor Day weekend, Columbia announced that it’s “dissolving” the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and sending its creator, Lucy Calkins, off on indefinite sabbatical.