Eighth-grade students around California and the nation can write better essays and more persuasive arguments than they could four years ago, but they still have a long way to go before being deemed ...

Nearly three quarters of American students who took the first-ever computer-based national writing exam did not communicate effectively, even when allowed to use spell check, a thesaurus and other ...

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.