'We can either train students to pass assessments that make teachers and bureaucrats happy, or we can help them learn how to think and write in ways that will allow them to operate effectively in ...

The five-paragraph essay, a staple in school writing curricula, has become a source of debate for educators, with critics charging the format is too rigid and constraining.

This study investigated the effectiveness of a metacognitive strategy, the PLEASE strategy, for teaching students with learning disabilities to write paragraphs. The investigation examined (a) ...