At a recent conference on teaching in higher education, I attended a session on ChatGPT. The session organizers, a team from the University of Central Florida, began by asking us to position ourselves ...

The students’ assignment: Write an op-ed about lead poisoning in Lewiston-Auburn. Or write a caption for a photo, or text about a campus tree. Write about how strange quantum theory is, or write a ...

Writing is a valuable educational tool for learning. In the classroom, writing can help students grapple with and understand content more deeply and help students learn disciplinary ways of knowing ...

Students at Hampton Middle School in Hampton, Ga., were given a homework assignment that required them to write a letter asking lawmakers for stricter gun-control laws. The seventh-grade ...

A homework assignment asking middle school students at a private school in Kentucky to write a letter to a hypothetical "homosexual friend" disapproving of their lifestyle has sparked outrage. The ...

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A Mississippi middle-school teacher's writing assignment on slavery is drawing criticism online. A teacher asked students to pretend to be slaves writing to their family in Africa. The school's ...