The poorest writing results were posted at Greater Nanticoke Area’s Elementary Center, where only 28.4 percent of the 158 fifth-graders who took the test (it’s the only grade in the school that is ...

By WILL PERKINS Glasgow News 1 Highland Elementary Principal Phillip West presented to members of the Glasgow Independent ...

Baldwinsville, NY -- The Baldwinsville Central School District this year has expanded a writing program in the third, fourth and fifth grades. The program, Units of Study for Primary Writing, was ...

Just as most students don’t automatically learn to read, they don’t automatically learn to write. The skill has to be taught. Research has shown that explicitly teaching students the processes of the ...

As more teachers are using both the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards, they will increasingly be confronted with a challenge: The standards in literacy and ...

On a late April morning at Woodrow Wilson Elementary on Binghamton’s West Side, the 19 kindergarteners in Michele Rozen’s classroom — bright and brimming with posters of rules and goals and letters ...

There are few things students may dread more than a writing assignment, but it shouldn’t be this way. Just as phonics are the steps to advanced reading, elementary writing is a skill set your child ...

When: School District of Lancaster board meeting, Sept. 9. Board member Molly Henderson was absent. What happened: The district will familiarize students with taking tests online and increase its ...