With educators under enormous pressure to make sure students meet grade level standards in reading and math, writing often takes a back seat in the curriculum, as many literacy experts have observed.

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Staying connected is a big challenge facing teachers and students as they begin remote learning. A Woodlin Elementary kindergarten teacher decided to write letters to her students ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...