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Letter writing with kids: Why penpals are making a comeback (and how to start)

The key is making it easy and lowering your standards dramatically.
Kaleido Scope

Could texting and autocorrect affect kids’ writing skills?

English teacher Carrie Beth Buchanan sees the effects of students’ growing up in an age when communication is done in an abbreviated text language and where they depend on autocorrect to automatically ...
The Observer

Report reveals 70% of primary school learners struggle with writing

At least 70 percent of learners in primary schools in Uganda cannot write adequately, a new report by Uwezo Uganda and the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network indicates. The report, titled ...
The Conversation

Our research shows children produce better pieces of writing by hand. But they need keyboard skills too

Deborah Pino Pasternak receives funding from The Ian Potter Foundation, and the ACT Education Directorate via the Affiliated Schools Funded Research Projects. Susan Ledger received funding from Ian ...
The Hill

Kids struggling with speech delays, writing and social skills since the pandemic

Research shows charter schools do a better job of closing the achievement gap for minority students in urban areas than traditional public schools. Congress in 1994 passed a law to increase the number ...