A group of students begins an in-class writing test. According to new data analysis, half of U.S. eighth graders have difficulty with long-form writing on tests and classwork that involves reading.

When Jeremy Sell saw the word “poignant” spelled correctly in an essay, the jig was up. Sell, a high school English teacher in California, already suspected that his student had used a generative AI ...

As AI cements itself firmly into classrooms, one large and lingering question concerns when and how students can use it appropriately. It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative ...

Teaching students to write is no easy feat, and it’s a topic that has often been discussed on this blog. Penny Kittle teaches first-year writers at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She was ...

I remember spending hours commenting painstakingly on my students’ papers when I was a graduate student teaching in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. My students loved our classes ...

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...

Studies have shown that many students are using AI to brainstorm, learn new information and revise their work. krisanapong detraphiphat/Moment via Getty Images I’m a writing professor who sees ...